Dov Tamari (mathematician)

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Dov Tamari (* as Bernhard Teitler April 29, 1911 in Fulda ; † August 2006 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli mathematician who studied mathematical logic , algebra and combinatorics .

life and work

Tamari's father Levi Jizchak Teitler came from the well-known Rabbi Levi Jizchak von Berditschew , came from Transylvania via Vienna to Hesse and was a rabbi, Kabbalist, cantor and owner of a small printer's shop. Tamari was born in Fulda, but the family moved to Giessen when he was two years old and he grew up there. In the 1920s he was active in the Zionist youth movement (Betar). As a high school student at the Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium , he was secretary in Gießen from 1926 to 1928 for the blind mathematician Moritz Pasch , who worked on a new edition of his origin of the number concept and died in 1930. After graduating from high school in 1929, Tamari studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Vienna, Frankfurt am Main and Giessen. After he already had a doctorate and enrolled in Frankfurt in 1933, he went to Palestine because of the racist persecution as a Jew in 1933, the year the Nazis came to power, where he studied at the Hebrew University . He received his doctorate from Paul Dubreil at the Sorbonne in 1951 ( Monoides préordonnés et chaines de Malcev ) and from 1964 taught at the State University of New York (SUNY), at its former college in Fredonia (New York) and in Buffalo (New York) . In the mid-1960s, he served on the faculty at Buffalo. Most recently he lived in Israel again and visited Gießen more often when he was working on his book about Moritz Pasch.

In 1960/61 and 1967/68 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .

The Tamari association is named after him, defined by all possible pairwise brackets in a base set.

Carlton Maxson (Professor at Texas A&M University ) is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

  • Moritz Pasch (1843–1930): father of modern axiomatics - his time with Klein and Hilbert and his posterity. A correction, Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2006 (published after his death with a biographical appendix by his son Dom Tamari)

literature

  • Folkert Müller-Hoissen, Jean Marcel Pallo, Jim Stasheff (editors) Associahedra, Tamari lattices and related structures: Tamari memorial festschrift , Birkhäuser / Springer Verlag, Progress in Mathematics 2012 (with biography of Müller-Hoissen and Hans-Otto Walther)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dov Tamari in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ According to the obituary at the AMS (In Memory) , he took part in the seminars of the Bourbaki group in the late 1940s and early 1950s
  3. ↑ Tamari The algebra of bracketings and their enumeration , Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, Series 3, Volume 10, 1962, pp. 131-146
  4. ↑ Tamari, Haya Friedman Problèmes d'associativité: Une structure de treillis finis induite par une loi demi-associative , Journal of Combinatorial Theory, 2, 1967, pp. 215-242
personal data
SURNAME Tamari, Dov
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teitler, Bernhard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda
DATE OF DEATH August 2006
Place of death Jerusalem