Binyamin A. Amirà (; 3 June 1896 – 20 January 1968) was an Israeli

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Early life and education

Born in 1896 in Mohilev,

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, Binyamin Amirà immigrated with his family to

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in Ottoman

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in 1910, where he attended the

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. Amirà went on to study mathematics at the

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, after which he moved to the

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in 1921 to undertake research for his doctorate under the supervision of

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Academic career

After completing his

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in 1924, Amirà spent a brief period at the University of Geneva as

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, after which he followed Landau in 1925 to help him in establishing the Mathematics Institute of the newly-founded

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. There he became the institute's first tenured staff member. Amirà founded the

Journal d'Analyse Mathématique The ''Journal d'Analyse Mathématique'' is a triannual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of Magnes Press (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). It was established in 1951 by Binyamin Amirà. The jo ...

in 1951, which he edited alongside Ze'ev Nehari and Menahem Schiffer. He retired in 1960.

References

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