Ali Nesin

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Hüseyin Ali Nesin (* 1956 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish mathematician and mathematics teacher.

Nesin, the son of Aziz Nesin , went to school in Lausanne and studied mathematics in Paris (from 1977 at the University of Paris VII ) and from 1981 at Yale University , where he received his doctorate in 1985 under Angus Macintyre (Groups of finite Morely rank ). As a post-doctoral student he was an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley , and in 1987/88 Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame . In 1988 he became Assistant Professor , 1991 Associate Professor and 1996 Professor at the University of California, Irvine . From 1996 he was a professor at the Bilgi University Istanbul , where he heads the mathematics department.

In 1989 he was visiting scholar at MSRI and in 1993/94 visiting professor at Bilkent University . In 2001/02 he was visiting researcher at the University of Lyon I.

In 2007 he founded a math village with Sirince . Mathematical workshops on all levels take place there (with space for up to 150 guests, but students often camp there). There students are made familiar with mathematical thinking in contrast to the schematic memorization that is otherwise common in (Turkish) schools. The village is isolated in the country. You have internet and electricity there, but television or loud radio are banned. During construction he had to overcome major obstacles from official bodies. The Armenian architect of the mathematical village Sevan Nişanyan was sentenced to prison in 2014 - officially for illegal building, but he is also known as an opposition intellectual - and went into exile in Greece in 2017. In 1995, after the death of his father, Nesin took over the Nesin Foundation, which among other things supports students from disadvantaged families.

He published analysis textbooks and popular science math books. He has his own publishing house (Nesin Publishing House) and also publishes a popular science journal on mathematics (Matematik Dünyası, The World of Mathematics) and is one of the editors of the popular science journal NTV-Bilim. As a mathematician, he deals with model theory in mathematical logic and with group theory.

He is one of the editors of the Turkish Journal of Mathematics. From 2007 to 2009 he was on the administrative committee of the Turkish Mathematical Society.

In 2018 he received the Leelavati Prize of the International Mathematical Union for contributions to the popularization of mathematics.

In 1999 he was a founding member of the Human Rights Institution of Turkey (TİHAK).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ali Nesin in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ Nesin Mathematical Village
  3. ↑ Julie Rehmeyer in the IMU appreciation for the Leevalati Price
  4. ^ Official website of the IMU for the Leelavati Prize 2018
personal data
SURNAME Nesin, Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nesin, Huseyin Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul