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Nessyahu Historical Archive
Nessyahu is a Hebrew surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Haim Nessyahu, the namesake of the Nessyahu Prize in mathematics, Israel * Mordechai Nessyahu (1929-1997), Israeli political theorist and philosopher of science {{surname category:Hebrew-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nessyahu Prize
The Israel Mathematical Union (IMU) ( he, הַאִיגּוּד הַיִשְׂרְאֵלִי לְמָתֶמָטִיקָה) is an association of professional mathematicians in Israel. It is a member of the European Mathematical Society and the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and has reciprocity membership agreements with the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The Union was founded on 2 March 1953 and held its first meeting with eleven short lectures on 28 September of that year. Early members included Binyamin Amirà, Michael Fekete, and Abraham Fraenkel, who represented the Union at the 1954 International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam, as well as Shmuel Agmon, Jacob Levitzki, and Dov Jarden. Prizes The Israel Mathematical Union awards four major prizes: * The Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics, awarded to an Israeli mathematician under the age of 41. * The Levitzki Prize in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordechai Nessyahu
Mordechai Nessyahu (September 25, 1929 – April 23, 1997) was an Israeli political theorist and philosopher of science, as well as the originator of a worldview he called ''cosmotheism''. Biography While studying physics and philosophy at the Hebrew University, Nessyahu began to formulate the worldview he eventually called cosmotheism. He exchanged several letters on the subject with Albert Einstein. In 1953 he published a book in Hebrew entitled ''מדע הקוסמוס וחברת המדע'' (''Cosmic Science and the Scientific Society'') which became the foundation of his eventual cosmotheistic formulation. Moshe Sharett, soon to be Israel's second prime minister, was so impressed by the book that he shared it with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. As a result, Nessyahu was appointed Director of the Research Department of the Israeli Labor Party. Nessyahu remained in this position until his death. In 1968 he met Tsvi Bisk, a new immigrant from the United States, who became his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |