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Elisha Netanyahu, Halevi

Russian: Элиша Нетаньяху, Halevi, Hebrew: אלישע נתניהו, Halevi
Also Known As: "אלישע נתניהו"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Warsaw, Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
Death: April 03, 1986 (73)
Immediate Family:

Son of Nathan Halevi Mileikovsky and Sarah Mileikowsky
Husband of Private and Shoshana Netanyahu
Father of Private; Nathan (Nati) Netanyahu; Danni Netanyahu and Private
Brother of Benzion Halevi Netanyahu; Saadya Mileikowsky, Halevi; Matthew מתי Milikowsky, Halevi; Amos Milo; Miri Margolin and 3 others

Occupation: Professor for Mathematics, Mathematician
Managed by: Yigal Burstein
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About Elisha Netanyahu, Halevi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Netanyahu

Elisha Netanyahu (Hebrew: אלישע נתניהו‎; December 21, 1912 – April 3, 1986) was an Israeli mathematician specializing in complex analysis. Over the course of his work at the Technion he was the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and established the separate Department of Mathematics. Historian Benzion Netanyahu was his brother and Benjamin Netanyahu, current Prime Minister of Israel is his nephew.

Netanyahu was born in Warsaw, Poland (earlier part of the Russian Empire) to the writer and Zionist activist Nathan Mileikowsky. He was the third of nine children. In 1920 the family made aliyah to Palestine. The family eventually settled in Jerusalem and adopted Hebrew name Netanyahu.

Netanyahu went to the Reali School in Haifa, from which he graduated in 1930. He later returned to Reali in 1935 to teach mathematics there. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, from which he received his BS, MA and Ph.D. (1942). His advisors were Michael Fekete and Binyamin Amira. After the graduation he joined the British Army as a volunteer, serving in Egypt and then in Italy as an officer in a unit of the Royal Engineering Corps. He specialized in preparation of maps, which he continued to do during Israel's War of Independence in 1948.

After he was demobilized in 1946, he became a lecturer at the Technion. He rose to a professor in 1958, and later became the head of the Mathematics Section, then as Dean of the Faculty of Sciences. His administrative efforts also played an important role towards establishment of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

He had long term visits at Stanford University (1953–4), the Courant Institute (1961), the University of New Mexico (1969), the University of Maryland, College Park (1973), and ETH Zürich (1979). In 1980, Netanyahu retired from the Technion and moved to Jerusalem, where he died of cancer in 1986.

Throughout his long career, Netanyahu collaborated with Paul Erdős, Charles Loewner and other leading mathematicians, continuing and expanding the analytical traditions at the Technion.

In 1949 Netanyahu married Shoshana Shenburg, his former student at the Reali, who later became the second female justice at the Israel Supreme Court. They had two children: Nathan (b. 1951), a professor of computer science at Bar-Ilan University, and Dan (b. 1954), an information systems auditor.

The Elisha Netanyahu Memorial Lecture Series was established by the Netanyahu family and the Technion to honor the memory in 1987 with the first lecture by Paul Erdős. In other years, the speakers included Lars Ahlfors, Robert Aumann, Lipman Bers, Enrico Bombieri, Charles Fefferman, Samuel Karlin, David Kazhdan, Louis Nirenberg, Terence Tao, Wendelin Werner, and Don Zagier.

Об Элише Нетаньяху, Halevi (русский)

Элиша Нетаньяху (Милейковский) родился 21 декабря 1912 года в Варшаве (тогда Российская Империя, ныне Польша) у супругов Сары (урождённой Лурье) и раввина Натана Милейковского, уроженца местечка Крево Ошмянского уезда. Отец был известным оратором и общественным деятелем сионизма. В 1920 году его семья репатриировалась в Эрец Исраэль. Обучался в школе «Реали» в Хайфе, закончив её в 1930 году. В 1935 году вернулся в эту школу в качестве преподавателя математики.

Обучался в Еврейском университете в Иерусалиме, где защитился на бакалавра, магистра (1935) и доктора (1942) под руководством Беньямина Амиры и Михаэля Фекете. Добровольцем вступил в Британскую армию, служил в Египте и Италии офицером в подразделении инженерных войск, специализируясь там на составлении карт, и в этой должности участвовал позднее также в Арабо-израильской войне.

С 1946 года — лектор в Технионе. В 1958 году повышен до титула профессора. В Технионе исполнял административные обязанности, в частности в качестве заведующего кафедрой математики, декана факультета наук и декана факультета математики. Кроме того, помогал в учреждении Университета им. Бен-Гуриона в Негеве.

В 1953 году взял длительный отпуск, во время которого предпринимал визиты в Стэнфордский университет (1953—1954 гг.), Курантовский институт математических наук (в 1961 г.), Университет Нью-Мексико (1969 г.), Мэрилендский университет в Колледж-Парке (1973 г.), Швейцарскую высшую техническую школу Цюриха (1979 г.).

С 1980 г. Нетаньяху уволился из Техниона и переехал в Иерусалим, где проживал до конца жизни. Умер от рака 3 апреля 1986 г. На протяжении своей профессиональной деятельности сотрудничал с Палом Эрдёшем, Чарлзом Лёвнером и другими выдающимися математиками.

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Elisha Netanyahu, Halevi's Timeline

1912
December 21, 1912
Warsaw, Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
1986
April 3, 1986
Age 73