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Artzy, Rafael was born on July 23, 1912 in Königsberg, Germany. Arrived in Israel, 1933. Son of Eduard and Ida (Freuldenheim) Deutschländer.
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Most linear algebra texts neglect geometry in general and linear geometry in particular. This text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students stresses the relationship between algebra and linear geometry. It begins by using the complex number plane as an introduction to a variety of transformations and their groups in the Euclidean plane, explaining algebraic concepts as they arise. A brief account of Poincaré's model of the hyperbolic plane and its transformation group follow. Succeeding chapters contain a systematic treatment of affine, Euclidean, and projective spaces over fields that emphasizes transformations and their groups, along with an outline of results involving other geometries. An examination of the foundations of geometry starts from rudimentary projective incidence planes, then gradually adjoins axioms and develops various non-Desarguesian, Desarguesian, and Pappian planes, their corresponding algebraic structures, and their collineation groups. The axioms of order, continuity, and congruence make their appearance and lead to Euclidean and non-Euclidean planes. Lists of books for suggested further reading follow the third and fourth chapters, and the Appendix provides lists of notations, axioms, and transformation groups.
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Artzy, Rafael was born on July 23, 1912 in Königsberg, Germany. Arrived in Israel, 1933. Son of Eduard and Ida (Freuldenheim) Deutschländer.
Rafael studied at Konigsberg University from 1930 to 1933. Rafael continued his studies at Hebrew University under Theodore Motzkin, obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy in 1945.
He transferred to Hebrew University and obtained a master’s degree in 1934. Elly and Rafael raised three children: Ehud, Michal, and Barak. Michal Artzy is emeritus professor in Marine Civilization at the University of Haifa.
He was an instructor and assistant professor at the Israel Institute of Technology from 1951 to 1956.
That year he also made his first of many contributions to Mathematical Reviews. Artzy became associate professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1960.
The following year Rutgers University made him a full professor In 1964 he was a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study.
He wrote Linear Geometry (1965) which was favorably reviewed by H. South. M. Coxeter In 1965 Artzy was at State University of New York in Buffalo.
In 1967 he joined Temple University where he was for five years. In 1972 Rafael Artzy returned to Israel and participated in mathematics at Technion in Haifa. He helped organize a quadrennial conference on geometry at Haifa.
Foreign instance, in March 1979 such a conference was held and the proceedings Geometry and Differential Geometry was edited by Artzy and I. Vaisman and published in Springer Lecture Notes as #792.
In 1992 he published Geometry. An Algebraic Approach Artzy had made 224 contributions to Mathematical Reviews by his last submission in 1995.
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Member Israel Mathematics Union (president 1984-1986), American Mathematics Society.
Married Elly Iwiansky, October 12, 1933. Children: Ehud, Michal, Barak.