Aryeh Dvoretzky

Aryeh Dvoretzky
Aryeh Dvoretzky, 1962
Born	(1916-05-03)May 3, 1916 Khorol, Imperial Russia
Died	May 8, 2008(2008-05-08) (aged 92) Jerusalem, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral advisor	Michael Fekete
Doctoral students	Uri Fixman Shmuel Gal Branko Grünbaum Aldo Lazar Joram Lindenstrauss Oved Shisha
Known for	Dvoretzky's theorem Dvoretzky's theorem in Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality Dvoretzky–Rogers theorem

Aryeh (Arie) Dvoretzky (Hebrew: אריה דבורצקי‎‎, Russian: Арье Дворецкий; May 3, 1916 – May 8, 2008) was a Russian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability.

Dvoretzky was born in 1916 in Khorol, Imperial Russia (now Ukraine). His family moved to Palestine in 1922. He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1933, and received his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1941. His advisor was Michael Fekete. He continued working in Jerusalem, becoming a full professor in 1951, the first graduate of the Hebrew University to achieve this distinction. Dvoretzky later became the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences (1955–1956) and Vice President of the Hebrew University (1959–1961).

Dvoretzky had visiting appointments at a number of universities, including Collège de France, Columbia University, Purdue University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He also visited twice the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (in 1948–1950 and in 1957–1958). In 1975 he founded the Institute for Advanced Studies of Jerusalem based on the Princeton IAS model. He was elected president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1974–1980) and later became the eighth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science (1986–1989). He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University in 1996.