The Israel Mathematical Union (IMU) ( he, הַאִיגּוּד הַיִשְׂרְאֵלִי לְמָתֶמָטִיקָה) is an

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of professional

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Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. It is a member of the

European Mathematical Society The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The current ...

and the

International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is an organisation for professional applied mathematics societies and related organisations. The current (2020) President is Ya-xiang Yuan. History Until 1999 the Council was ...

, and has reciprocity membership agreements with the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

and the

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. 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 Binyamin A. Amirà (; 3 June 1896 – 20 January 1968) was an Israeli mathematician. Biography Born in 1896 in Mohilev, Russian Empire, Binyamin Amirà emigrated with his family to Tel Aviv in Ottoman Palestine in 1910, where he attended the He ...

Michael Fekete Michael (Mihály) Fekete ( he, מיכאל פקטה; 19 July 1886 – 13 May 1957) was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician. Biography Fekete was born in 1886 in Zenta, Austria-Hungary (today Senta, Serbia). He received his PhD in 1909 from ...

, and

Abraham Fraenkel Abraham Fraenkel ( he, אברהם הלוי (אדולף) פרנקל; February 17, 1891 – October 15, 1965) was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ...

, who represented the Union at the 1954

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, as well as Shmuel Agmon,

Jacob Levitzki Jacob Levitzki, also known as Yaakov Levitsky ( he, יעקב לויצקי) (17 August 1904 - 25 February 1956) was an Israeli mathematician. Biography Levitzki was born in 1904 in the Russian Empire and emigrated to then Ottoman-ruled Palestin ...

, 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 Algebra, awarded biennially to a young Israeli mathematician for research in

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or related areas. * The Haim Nessyahu Prize in Mathematics, awarded for outstanding achievements in a mathematical Ph.D. dissertation. * The Abarbanel Prize in Applied Mathematics, awarded to an Israeli applied mathematician under the age of 48."Abarbanel prize"
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Presidents

* Yakar Kannai (1981–1982) *

Shmuel Kantorovitz ''Shmuel'' or Schmuel/ Shmeil is the Hebrew equivalent of the name Samuel. It is popular also in Polish Yiddish versions of the name: Szmul or Szmuel and Szmulik or Szmulek. Shmuel and variations may refer to: * Samuel (Bible), the Hebrew Bible pro ...

(1983–1984) *

Rafael Artzy Rafael Artzy (23 July 1912 – 22 August 2006) was an Israeli mathematician specializing in geometry. Education and emigration Artzy was born July 23, 1912, in Königsberg, Germany. His father was Edward I. Deutschlander and his mother Ida Freud ...

(1985–1986) *

Moshe Jarden Moshe Jarden () is an Israeli mathematician, specialist in field arithmetic. Biography Moshe Jarden was born in 1942 in Tel Aviv. His father, Dr. Dov Jarden, was a mathematician, writer and linguist, who transmitted him his love to mathematics. ...

(1987–1988) *

Zvi Ziegler Zvi ( he, צְבִי and , ''Tzvi'', Ṣvi, "gazelle") is a Jewish masculine given name. Notable people with this name include: * Zvi Aharoni (1921–2012), Israeli Mossad agent * Zvi Arad (1942–2018), Israeli mathematician, acting president of B ...

(1989–1990) * Yisrael Aumann (1991–1992) *

Miriam Cohen Miriam Cohen (born October 1941) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev whose main areas of research are Hopf algebras, quantum groups and Noncommutative rings. Biograph ...

(1993–1994) *

Stephen Gelbart Stephen Samuel Gelbart (born June 12, 1946) is an American-Israeli mathematician who holds the Nicki and J. Ira Harris Professorial Chair in mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

(1995–1996) * Lawrence Zalcman (1997–1998) *

Joseph Zaks Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

(1999–2000) *

Vitali Milman Vitali Davidovich Milman ( he, ויטלי מילמן; russian: Виталий Давидович Мильман) (born 23 August 1939) is a mathematician specializing in analysis. He is a professor at the Tel Aviv University. In the past he was a ...

(2001–2002) * Allan Pinkus (2003–2004) *

Sergiu Hart Sergiu Hart ( he, סרג'יו הרט) (born 1949) is an Israeli mathematician and economist. He is the Chairperson of the Humanities Division of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the past President of the Game Theory Society (200 ...

(2005–2006) * Michael Lin (2007–2008) * Harry Dym (2009–2010) * Louis H. Rowen (2011–2012) * Alek Vainshtein (2013–2014) *

(2015–2016) * Koby Rubinstein (2017-2018) *

Alexander Lubotzky Alexander Lubotzky ( he, אלכסנדר לובוצקי; born 28 June 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and former politician who is currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an adjunct professor at Yale University. He served ...

(2019-2020) * Menachem Kojman (2021-2022) *

Gideon Schechtman Gideon Schechtman (; born 14 February 1947) is an Israeli mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Academic career Schechtman received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1 ...

(2023-)

References

1953 establishments in Israel Mathematical societies Professional associations based in Israel Scientific organizations based in Israel Organizations established in 1953 {{Israel-org-stub

Prizes

Presidents

See also

References