# Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Nation/Israel

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The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.
-- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London

## Israel

##### Eutocius of Ascalon $($$\text {c. 480} – \text {c. 540}$$)$

Palestinian philisopher about whom little is known. He wrote commentaries on works of Apollonius and Archimedes.

It is possible that Eutocius studied in Alexandria and became its head.
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##### Avner Friedman $($$\text {b. 1932}$$)$

Israeli-born mathematician, whose primary field of research is partial differential equations, with interests in stochastic processes, mathematical modeling, free boundary problems, and control theory.

Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University.
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##### Azriel Lévy $($$\text {b. 1934}$$)$

Israeli mathematician and logician.

Professor emeritus at the University of Jerusalem.

Worked on several results investigating the Axiom of Choice.
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##### Hillel Furstenberg $($$\text {b. 1935}$$)$

Israeli mathematician famous for his proof, using techniques from topology, on the infinitude of primes.
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##### Amnon Pazy $($$\text {1936} – \text {2006}$$)$

Israeli mathematician who specialized in partial differential equations.

Also made important contributions to the theory of semigroups.
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##### Joseph Hoshen $($$\text {b. 1942}$$)$

Israeli-American mathematician known for the creation of Hoshen-Kopelman algorithm that is used to count clusters (connected components) in large lattices; over the years, the algorithm has found many applications in science and technology.

Demonstrated that solving GPS (Global Positioning System) equation is equivalent to solving the Problem of Apollonius in 3 dimensions.

Developed a graph theoretical method to resolve software dependencies problems; problems that in $1992$ almost brought the delivery of Lucent's 5ESS international switch software updates to a standstill.
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##### Saharon Shelah $($$\text {b. 1945}$$)$

Israeli mathematician known for his work on stable theories.
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##### Mordechai Ben-Ari $($$\text {b. 1948}$$)$

Israeli mathematician best known for his work in mathematical logic and computer science.
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##### Ariel Rubinstein $($$\text {b. 1951}$$)$

Israeli mathematician Israeli economist who works in Economic Theory, Game Theory and Bounded Rationality.
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##### Adi Shamir $($$\text {b. 1952}$$)$

Israeli cryptographer and software engineer, best known for his involvement in the creation of the RSA algorithm.
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##### David Elieser Deutsch $($$\text {b. 1953}$$)$

Israeli-born British physicist who pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating a description for a quantum Turing machine.
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##### Yuli Eidelman $($$\text {b. 1955}$$)$

Israeli mathematician.
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##### Shafi Goldwasser $($$\text {b. 1959}$$)$

Israeli-American computer scientist.
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