Aryeh Dvoretzky
Aryeh Dvoretzky | |
|---|---|
 Aryeh Dvoretzky, 1962 | |
| Born | May 3, 1916 |
| Died | May 8, 2008 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Known for | Dvoretzky's theorem Dvoretzky's theorem in stochastic approximation Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality Dvoretzky–Rogers theorem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Fekete |
| Doctoral students | Uri Fixman Shmuel Gal Branko Grünbaum Aldo Lazar Joram Lindenstrauss Oved Shisha |
Aryeh (Arie) Dvoretzky (Hebrew: אריה דבורצקי, Russian: Арье Дворецкий; May 3, 1916 – May 8, 2008) was a Russian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics.[1][2] He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability.
Biography
Dvoretzky was born in 1916 in Khorol, Imperial Russia (now Ukraine). His family moved to Palestine in 1922.[3] He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1933, and received his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1941. His advisor was Michael Fekete. He continued working in Jerusalem, becoming a full professor in 1951, the first graduate of the Hebrew University to achieve this distinction.[4] Dvoretzky later became the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences (1955–1956) and Vice President of the Hebrew University (1959–1961).
Dvoretzky had visiting appointments at a number of universities, including Collège de France, Columbia University, Purdue University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He also visited twice the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (in 1948–1950 and in 1957–1958).[5] In 1975 he founded the Institute for Advanced Studies of Jerusalem based on the Princeton IAS model.[6] He was elected president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1974–1980) and later became the eighth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science (1986–1989). He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University in 1996.[7]
Dvoretzky made his expertise available to the Israel security establishment. In 1960 he became the head of Rafael, the weapons development authority. He later became the chief scientist for the Israel Ministry of Defense.[8]
Dvoretzky's son Gideon was killed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Aryeh Dvoretzky's students included Branko Grünbaum and Joram Lindenstrauss.
References
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1973 (in Hebrew)".
- ^ Israel prize winner Prof. Aryeh Dvoretzky dies at 92
- ^ Obituary Archived May 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, by Joseph Yahav, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- ^ In memoriam, Israel Journal of Mathematics 167 (2008).
- ^ A community of scholars[permanent dead link]
- ^ The Institute Mission Archived June 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Honorary doctor of philosophy (by year)
- ^ 1967, by Tom Segev and Jessica Cohen, p. 528.
External links
- Aryeh Dvoretzky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Webpage at the Wetizmann Institute
- 1966 interview in Moscow, Russia; Eugene Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews, Cornell University Library.
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- 20th-century mathematicians
- Israeli mathematicians
- Probability theorists
- Israel Prize in exact science recipients who were mathematicians
- Presidents of Weizmann Institute of Science
- Weizmann Institute faculty
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
- Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Ukrainian emigrants to Israel
- Israeli Jews
- Ukrainian Jews
- 1916 births
- 2008 deaths
- Presidents of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Functional analysts