Rafael Artzy

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Rafael Artzy 1980

Rafael Artzy (born July 23, 1912 in Koenigsberg , † August 22, 2006 in Haifa ) was an Israeli mathematician who dealt with geometry .

Life

Artzy studied from 1930 at the University of Königsberg, where he was a student of Kurt Reidemeister . When the latter lost his office after the National Socialists came to power, Artzy also accelerated his plans to emigrate, especially since he had been active in the Zionist movement for a long time. From 1933 he continued his studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with his degree in 1934 and his doctorate with Theodore Motzkin in 1945 (Minimum nets in abstract webs). In 1934 he married and taught at a grammar school in Israel until 1951 and then as an assistant professor at the Technion in Haifa. In 1956 he became a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and in 1960 an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1961 he received a full professorship at Rutgers University , in 1964 he was a guest at the Institute for Advanced Study , from 1965 he was at the State University of New York at Buffalo and from 1967 at Temple University . In 1973 he returned to Israel and taught again in Haifa, this time at the University of Haifa , where he helped set up the mathematics faculty and was head of it.

In 1964 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study .

Artzy studied the basics of geometry. At the end of the 1970s he founded a geometry conference in Haifa that took place every four years until the end of the 1990s.

He was editor of the Journal of Geometry.

Fonts

  • Linear Geometry, Addison-Wesley 1965, Dover 2008
  • Geometry: an algebraic approach, BI Wissenschaftsverlag, Mannheim 1992
  • Editor: Geometry and differential geometry: proceedings of a conference held at the University of Haifa, Israel, March 18-23, 1979, Springer, Lecture notes in Mathematics, 1980

literature

  • Walter Benz : Rafael Artzy (1912-2006), Mitteilungen der Mathematischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg, Volume 29, 2010, pp. 5–7.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany, 2009, p. 80
  2. ↑ Rafael Artzy in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ IAS to Artzy
personal data
SURNAME Artzy, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 2006
Place of death Haifa