Israel Mathematical Union

Israeli professional mathematician association

Israel Mathematical Union

האיגוד הישראלי למתמטיקה

Abbreviation| IMU
Formation| March 2, 1953; 72 years ago (1953-03-02)
Type| Professional association

Region served

| Israel

Official language

| Hebrew
Website| imu.org.il

The Israel Mathematical Union (IMU) (Hebrew: הַאִיגּוּד הַיִשְׂרְאֵלִי לְמָתֶמָטִיקָה) is an association of professional mathematicians in Israel. It is a member of the European Mathematical Society and the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and has reciprocity membership agreements with the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.[1]

The Union was founded on 2 March 1953 and held its first meeting with eleven short lectures on 28 September of that year.[2] Early members included Binyamin Amirà, Michael Fekete, and Abraham Fraenkel, who represented the Union at the 1954 International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam, as well as Shmuel Agmon, Jacob Levitzki, and Dov Jarden.[2]

## Prizes

[edit]

The Israel Mathematical Union awards four major prizes:

* The Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics, awarded to an Israeli mathematician under the age of 41.[3]
* The Levitzki Prize in Algebra, awarded biennially to a young Israeli mathematician for research in Algebra or related areas.[4]
* The Haim Nessyahu Prize in Mathematics, awarded for outstanding achievements in a mathematical Ph.D. dissertation.[5]
* The Abarbanel Prize in Applied Mathematics, awarded to an Israeli applied mathematician under the age of 48.[6]

## Presidents

[edit]

* Yakar Kannai (1981–1982)
* Shmuel Kantorovitz (1983–1984)
* Rafael Artzy (1985–1986)
* Moshe Jarden (1987–1988)
* Zvi Ziegler (1989–1990)
* Yisrael Aumann (1991–1992)
* Miriam Cohen (1993–1994)
* Stephen Gelbart (1995–1996)
* Lawrence Zalcman (1997–1998)
* Joseph Zaks (1999–2000)
* Vitali Milman (2001–2002)
* Allan Pinkus (2003–2004)
* Sergiu Hart (2005–2006)
* Michael Lin (2007–2008)
* Harry Dym (2009–2010)
* Louis H. Rowen (2011–2012)
* Alek Vainshtein (2013–2014)
* Vitali Milman (2015–2016)
* Koby Rubinstein (2017-2018)
* Alexander Lubotzky (2019-2020)
* Menachem Kojman (2021-2022)
* Gideon Schechtman (2023-2024)
* Mina Teicher (2025-2026)

## See also

[edit]

* Einstein Institute of Mathematics
* Wolf Prize in Mathematics

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Affiliated societies". Israel Mathematical Union. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
2. ^ a b O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (February 2018). "The Israel Mathematical Union". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. University of St Andrews.
3. ^ "The Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics". Israel Mathematical Union. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
4. ^ "Levitzki Prize in Algebra". Israel Mathematical Union. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
5. ^ "Nessyahu Prize". Israel Mathematical Union. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
6. ^ "Abarbanel prize". Israel Mathematical Union. Retrieved 24 March 2023.

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* United States
* Israel

This article about an organization in Israel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

This article about a mathematics organization is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template