Background
Dvoretzky was born in 1916 in Khorol, Imperial Russia (now Ukraine).
educationist mathematician university professor
Dvoretzky was born in 1916 in Khorol, Imperial Russia (now Ukraine).
He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1933, and received his Doctor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1941.
He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability. His family moved to Palestine in 1922. His advisor was Michael Fekete.
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 Institute for Advanced Study 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.
Dvoretzky made his expertise available to the Israel security establishment. In 1960 he became the head of Rafael, the weapons development authority. He later became the chief scientist for the Israel Ministry of Defense.
Dvoretzky"s son Gideon was killed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Aryeh Dvoretzky"s students included Branko Grünbaum and Joram Lindenstrauss.
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.