Aviezri S. Fraenkel

Background

Aviezri Siegmund Fraenkel, son of Joel E. and Esther E. (Pineas) Fraenkel, was born on June 7, 1929 in Munich, Germany, to a Jewish family, which then moved to Switzerland soon thereafter. In 1939 his family moved once more, to Jerusalem.

Education

Diploma in engineering, Israel Institute of Technology, 1953. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Israel Institute of Technology, 1953. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Israel Institute of Technology, 1957.

Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, 1961.

Career

Aviezri Siegmund Fraenkel worked as a computer designer and constructor in the Weizmann Institute of Science, 1954-1957; assistant professor of mathematics in the University of Oregon, 1961-1962. Fraenkel was the founder of the Bar Ilan Responsa Project, serving as its initial director (1963–74), which received the Israel Prize in 2007. From 1962 to 1983, he worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science starting as a senior scientist and ending as an associate professor. On December 5, 2006, he received the "WEIZAC Medal" from the IEEE, as a member of the team that built the WEIZAC, one of the first computers in the world and the first computer built in Israel.

Achievements

• Aviezri S. Fraenkel has been listed as a notable Mathematician, computer scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• Other Work

  • Combinatorial Number Theory: Proceedings of the "Integers Conference 2011", Carrollton, Georgia, USA, October 26-29, 2011 (De Gruyter Proceedings in Mathematics)

    (This volume contains selected refereed papers based on le...)

    2011
  • Computing a perfect strategy for n x n chess requires time exponential in n 1979
  • Geodetic games on graphs 1986
  • Complexity of games 1990
  • Iterated floor function, algebraic numbers, discrete chaos, Beatty subsequences, semigroups 1991

Membership

Member Israel Mathematics Union (chairman 1970-1972), Information Process Association Israel (bulletin founder, editor 1972-1976, council member 1971-1982), American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American, Association Computing Machinery, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, European Mathematics Society (electron public committee).

Connections

Married Shaula Babad, June 7, 1956. Children: Yedidya, Yigal, Amir, Yael, Avraham, Yishai.

Father:

Joel E. Fraenkel

Mother:

Esther E. (Pineas) Fraenkel

Spouse:

Shaula Babad

child:

Avraham Fraenkel

child:

Yael Fraenkel

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Yishai Fraenkel

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Yigal Fraenkel

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Yedidya Fraenkel

child:

Amir Fraenkel