Shimshon Amitsur
Israeli mathematician (1921–1994)
Shimshon Avraham Amitsur (born Kaplan ; Hebrew : שמשון אברהם עמיצור ; August 26, 1921 – September 5, 1994) was an Israeli mathematician . He is best known for his work in ring theory , in particular PI rings , an area of abstract algebra .
Biography
Amitsur was born in Jerusalem and studied at the Hebrew University under the supervision of Jacob Levitzki . His studies were repeatedly interrupted, first by World War II and then by the 1948 Arab–Israeli War . He received his M.Sc. degree in 1946, and his Ph.D . in 1950. Later, for his joint work with Levitzki, he received the first Israel Prize in Exact Sciences . He worked at the Hebrew University until his retirement in 1989. Amitsur was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1952 to 1954.[ 1] He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1970 in Nice.[ 2] He was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences , where he was the Head for Experimental Science Section. He was one of the founding editors of the Israel Journal of Mathematics , and the mathematical editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia . Amitsur received a number of awards, including the honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University in 1990. His students included Avinoam Mann, Amitai Regev , Eliyahu Rips and Aner Shalev .
Awards
Amitsur and Jacob Levitzki were each awarded the Israel Prize in exact sciences , in 1953, its inaugural year.[ 3]
See also
Publications
Amitsur, A. S.; Levitzki, Jakob (1950), "Minimal identities for algebras", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society , 1 (4): 449–463, doi :10.1090/S0002-9939-1950-0036751-9 , ISSN 0002-9939 , JSTOR 2032312 , MR 0036751
Amitsur, S. A. (2001), Mann, Avinoam; Regev, Amitai; Rowen, Louis; Saltman, David J.; Small, Lance W. (eds.), Selected papers of S. A. Amitsur with commentary. Part 1 , Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society , ISBN 978-0-8218-2924-0 , MR 1866636
Amitsur, S. A. (2001), Mann, Avinoam; Regev, Amitai; Rowen, Louis; Saltman, David J.; Small, Lance W. (eds.), Selected papers of S. A. Amitsur with commentary. Part 2 , Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society , ISBN 978-0-8218-2925-7 , MR 1866637
References
"Shimshon Avraham Amitsur (1921 — 1994)", by A. Mann, Israel Journal of Mathematics , Vol. 96 (December 1996), ix - xxvii.
Formanek, Edward (2003), "Review of Selected papers of S. A. Amitsur" , Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , 40 : 131–135, doi :10.1090/s0273-0979-02-00960-6 , ISSN 0002-9904
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