The Israel Mathematical Union (IMU) () is an association of professional

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. It is a member of the

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and the

International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is an organisation for professional applied mathematics societies and related organisations. The current president is Wil Schilders. The cash award for each of the prizes is ...

, and has reciprocity membership agreements with the

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and the

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. The Union was founded on 2 March 1953 and held its first meeting with eleven short lectures on 28 September of that year. Early members included Binyamin Amirà,

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, and

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, who represented the Union at the 1954

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, as well as Shmuel Agmon,

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, and Dov Jarden.

Prizes

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. * The Levitzki Prize in Algebra, awarded biennially to a young Israeli mathematician for research in

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or related areas. * The Haim Nessyahu Prize in Mathematics, awarded for outstanding achievements in a mathematical Ph.D. dissertation. * The Abarbanel Prize in Applied Mathematics, awarded to an Israeli applied mathematician under the age of 48."Abarbanel prize"
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Presidents

* Yakar Kannai (1981–1982) * Shmuel Kantorovitz (1983–1984) *

Rafael Artzy Rafael Artzy (; 23 July 1912 – 22 August 2006) was an Israeli mathematician specializing in geometry. Education and emigration Artzy was born July 23, 1912, in Königsberg, Germany. His father was Edward I. Deutschlander and his mother Ida Fre ...

(1985–1986) * Moshe Jarden (1987–1988) * Zvi Ziegler (1989–1990) * Yisrael Aumann (1991–1992) * Miriam Cohen (1993–1994) *

Stephen Gelbart Stephen Samuel Gelbart (; born June 12, 1946) is an American-Israeli mathematician who holds the Nicki and J. Ira Harris Professorial Chair in mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

(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) *

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(2019-2020) * Menachem Kojman (2021-2022) * Gideon Schechtman (2023-2024) * Mina Teicher (2025-2026)

References

1953 establishments in Israel Mathematical societies Professional associations based in Israel Scientific organizations based in Israel Organizations established in 1953 {{Math-org-stub

Prizes

Presidents

See also

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