Background
Levi was born to Georg Levi and Emma Blum in Mulhouse in Alsace-Lorraine, then part of the German Empire.
mathematician university professor
Levi was born to Georg Levi and Emma Blum in Mulhouse in Alsace-Lorraine, then part of the German Empire.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1911 under Heinrich Martin Weber at the University of Strasbourg.
He also worked in geometry, topology, set theory, and analysis. He served his mandatory military service in the German Army in 1906–1907, and was called up again serving in the artillery during World War I, 1914-1918. He taught at the University of Leipzig between 1920 and 1935, when the Nazi government fired him because of his Jewish ancestry.
In 1935 he accepted an offer as head of the Mathematics Department at the University of Calcutta.
In 1948, Levi became professor of mathematics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. In 1952, he returned to Germany and was a professor at the Free University of Berlin and later University of Freiburg.
He died in Freiburg.