Rafael Artzy | |
|---|---|
רפאל ארצי | |
 Artzy in 1980 | |
| Born | (1912-07-23)23 July 1912 |
| Died | 22 August 2006 (2006-08-23) (aged 94) |
| Citizenship | Israel |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University |
| Known for | Linear Geometry |
| Spouse | Elly Iwiansky |
| Children | Ehud, Michal, Barak |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geometry |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin, Madison University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Rutgers University Institute for Advanced Study State University of New York Temple University |
| Doctoral advisor | Theodore Motzkin |
Rafael Artzy (Hebrew:רפאל ארצי; 23 July 1912 – 22 August 2006) was an Israelimathematician specializing ingeometry.
Artzy was born July 23, 1912, inKönigsberg,Germany. His father was Edward I. Deutschlander and his mother Ida Freudenheim. Rafael studied atKönigsberg University from 1930 to 1933. He transferred toHebrew University and obtained amaster's degree in 1934. He married Elly Iwiansky on October 12, 1934. Rafael continued his studies at Hebrew University underTheodore Motzkin, obtaining aPh.D. in 1945. Elly and Rafael raised three children: Ehud, Michal, and Barak. Ehud and Barak died before their father. Michal Artzy isemeritus professor in Marine Civilization[1] at theUniversity of Haifa.
Rafael served as both teacher and principal of Israel High School from 1934 to 1951. He was an instructor and assistant professor at theIsrael Institute of Technology from 1951 to 1956.
Rafael Artzy took up a position as research associate and lecturer atUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison in 1956. That year he also made his first of many contributions toMathematical Reviews. Artzy becameassociate professor atUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1960. The following yearRutgers University made him a full professor. In 1964 he was a visitor at theInstitute for Advanced Study.[2] He wroteLinear Geometry (1965) which was favorably reviewed byH. S. M. Coxeter[3] In 1965 Artzy was atState University of New York inBuffalo. In 1967 he joinedTemple University where he was for five years.
In 1972 Rafael Artzy returned to Israel and participated in mathematics at Technion in Haifa. He helped organize a quadrennial conference on geometry at Haifa. For instance, in March 1979 such a conference was held and the proceedingsGeometry and Differential Geometry was edited by Artzy and I. Vaisman and published asLecture Notes in Mathematics #792. In 1992 he publishedGeometry. An Algebraic Approach[4] Artzy had made 224 contributions toMathematical Reviews by his last submission in 1995.
