| Jakob Levitzki | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1904-08-17)17 August 1904 Kherson, Russian Empire |
| Died | 25 February 1956 (age 51) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Known for | Levitzky's theorem, Amitsur–Levitzki theorem, Hopkins–Levitzki theorem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Hebrew University |
| Doctoral advisor | Emmy Noether |
| Doctoral students | Shimshon Amitsur |
| Other notable students | Haya Freedman |
Jakob Levitzki, also known as Yaakov Levitsky (Hebrew: יעקב לויצקי; 17 August 1904 – 25 February 1956), was an Israeli mathematician.
Biography
Levitzki was born in 1904 in Kherson, Russian Empire, and emigrated to then Ottoman-ruled Palestine in 1912. After completing his studies at the Herzliya Gymnasia, he travelled to Germany and, in 1929, obtained a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Göttingen under the supervision of Emmy Noether. In 1931, after two years at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, Levitzki returned to Palestine to join the faculty at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Awards
Levitzki together with Shimshon Amitsur, who had been one of his students at the Hebrew University, were each awarded the Israel Prize in exact sciences in 1953, the inaugural year of the prize, for their work on the laws of noncommutative rings.
Levitzki's son Alexander Levitzki, a recipient of the Israel Prize in 1990, in life sciences, established the Levitzki Prize in the name of his parents, Jacob and Charlotte, for Israeli research in the field of algebra.
See also
References
- Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (6 July 2009). Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global Impact. Princeton University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-4008-3140-1.
- "Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel". tidhar.tourolib.org.
- Jakob Levitzki at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Israel Prize recipients in 1953 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on August 19, 2011.
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