Aviezri Fraenkel
Aviezri Siegmund Fraenkel (born June 7, 1929 in Munich ) is an Israeli mathematician who specializes in combinatorial game theory.
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Fraenkel's family left Germany in 1932 while fleeing the National Socialists and went to Israel via Basel in 1939. He initially trained as an electrician and then studied electrical engineering at the Technion , interrupted by working for the Haganah and participating in the Israeli War of Independence. After graduating, he did his military service as an intelligence officer. In 1953 he was a member of the team led by Gerald Estrin (who had worked on John von Neumann's computer at the Institute for Advanced Study and was a professor at UCLA ) that built the first electronic computer (Weizac) in Israel at the Weizmann Institute . In 1957 he went to UCLA at the invitation of Estrin to do a doctorate in computer science (electrical engineering). Since his mathematics minor subjects were not accepted, he instead received his doctorate in mathematics (Rational approximations to algebraic numbers) in 1961 under Ernst Gabor Straus . He was a post-graduate student at the University of Oregon . In 1962 he returned to Israel and went to the Weizmann Institute, where he was initially commissioned to install a CDC mainframe. He became a professor at the Weizmann Institute (Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics).
Fraenkel is also known for his Responsa project , an extensive Hebrew electronic text collection (which, in addition to the Bible, also includes Talmudic and other literature from the Jewish diaspora , which spans more than 2000 years ) at Bar Ilan University , for which he also developed search functions. He had been working on it since 1962.
An extensive bibliography of combinatorial game theory comes from Fraenkel. In addition to mathematical games, he also deals with combinatorics, number theory and computer science.
He has been married to the teacher Shaula Fraenkel since 1956 and has five sons and a daughter.
In 2005 he received the Euler Medal and in 2006 the Weizac Medal of the IEEE as a member of the team that built the Weizac. In 2007 the Responsa project, for which he received the Feder Foundation Prize in 1972, was awarded the Israel Prize and in 2007 he was named Meritocrat of Rehovot (Yakir Ha'ir). In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( A class of transcendental numbers ).
Web links
- Homepage
- Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2001, on Fraenkel's 70th birthday, with biography, English
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Responsa project
- ^ The ICA Medals. Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, accessed June 17, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fraenkel, Aviezri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fraenkel, Aviezri Siegmund (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |