Levitzki or Levitsky ( uk, Левицький ''Łevyćkyj'', russian: Левицкий ''Levickij'', pl, Lewicki, he, לויצקי) is a surname, which is derived from the Hebrew name Levi meaning "joined to" in Hebrew.MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Levi
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Alexander Levitzki Alexander Levitzki (Hebrew: אלכסנדר לויצקי; born 13 August 1940) is an Israeli biochemist who is a professor of biochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Birth and education Levitzki was born in 1940 in Palestine. He com ...

(born 1940), Israeli biochemist *

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 Palestine ...

(1904–1956), Jewish Ukrainian-Israeli mathematician *

Mischa Levitzki Mischa Levitzki (also spelled Levitski; uk, Міша Левицький (); May 25, 1898 – January 2, 1941) was a Russian-born U.S.-based concert pianist. Levitzki was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), to Jewi ...

(1898–1941), Jewish Ukrainian-American concert pianist It can also refer to: * Levitzki radical *

Levitzky's theorem In mathematics, more specifically ring theory and the theory of nil ideals, Levitzky's theorem, named after Jacob Levitzki, states that in a right Noetherian ring, every nil one-sided ideal is necessarily nilpotent. Levitzky's theorem is one of the ...

Hopkins–Levitzki theorem In the branch of abstract algebra called ring theory, the Akizuki–Hopkins–Levitzki theorem connects the descending chain condition and ascending chain condition in Module (mathematics), modules over semiprimary rings. A ring ''R'' (with 1) ...

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