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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

mathematics

Screenshot of Eliyahu Rips speaking to a Czechoslovakian news channel on January 19, 2019. (Ivysilani, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 31, 2024, 11:29 am
Eliyahu Rips, mathematician who claimed to find hidden code in Bible, dies at 75
Born in Latvia to Holocaust survivors in 1948, Rips moved to Israel in 1972; his research led to Michael Drosnin’s debunked bestseller ‘The Bible Code’
By ToI Staff
Composite image showing, from left to right, Prof. David Kazhdan, Prof. Maren R. Niehoff and Prof. Nathan Lineal of the Hebrew University. (courtesy)
April 11, 2024, 1:15 pm
Fourteen Israeli professors awarded top EU research grants
Researchers from the Hebrew University, the Technion, Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute to each receive €2.5 million in funding from the European Research Council
By Gavriel Fiske
Screen capture from undated video of Chas Newby performing at a concert. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 24, 2023, 11:46 am
Chas Newby, briefly bassist for The Beatles, dies aged 81
Always said he had no regrets about leaving band to go back to university and become a math teacher; McCartney reluctantly took up the bass and global stardom followed
By ToI Staff
A door handle in the shape of pi is seen at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York, December 17, 2012. The museum is aimed at kids aged 8 to 13, and curators have given the place a playground feel. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
March 16, 2022, 1:44 pm
NY exhibit of geometric drawings by Jewish inventor adds it all up
Show of 37 pieces by 95-year-old artist, author, Holocaust survivor and toy and puzzle creator Ivan Moscovich at MoMath brings new audience to Shoah history
By Lisa Keys
Illustrative image of Israeli high school student taking a mathematics paper, May 25 2010. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
July 26, 2021, 4:45 pm
Israelis win 6 medals, including 3 golds, at math Olympiad
National team finishes in seventh place at international tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia, its best-ever showing
By ToI Staff
German Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether (public domain)
July 16, 2021, 4:34 am
Impact of mathematician who overcame Nazis, sexism still felt 100 years later
Colleague compared Emmy Noether’s premature 1935 death to ‘echo of a thunderclap’ but her contributions to the field through her paper on ring theory continue to reverberate
By Tamar Lichter Blanks
Screen capture from video of Israeli computational complexity theory researcher Avi Wigderson as he talks about being awarded the Abel Prize in 2021. (YouTube)
March 21, 2021, 10:30 am
Israeli, Hungarian, awarded ‘math Nobel’ for computer security achievements
Avi Wigderson and Laszlo Lovasz honored with Abel Prize for contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics; 2nd year in a row that an Israeli has won award
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative image: a robot surveys mathematical calculations (PhonlamaiPhoto via iStock by Getty Images)
February 4, 2021, 5:28 pm
World’s hottest new math mind-teasers set by Israeli AI formula-finder
Work by ‘Ramanujan Machine’ in Haifa published in influential journal Nature; development team notes that it’s breaking new ground by studying constants, particularly pi
By Nathan Jeffay
An Oscar statue at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, February 4, 2020; Ben Zauzmer works during the day as a baseball analyst for the Los Angeles Dodgers. (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images/via JTA/ Courtesy of Zauzmer/ via JTA)
February 8, 2020, 4:25 pm
Data whiz picks Oscar wins using ‘same spirit with which we approach religion’
Ben Zauzmer, 26, a baseball analyst for the Los Angeles Dodgers, predicted 20 out of 21 winners last year. Think of him as the Nate Silver of Oscars night
By Gabe Friedman
Prof Alex Lubotzky, winner of the Israel Prize for research in mathematics and computer science, 2018. (Courtesy)
February 21, 2018, 9:39 am
Former MK awarded Israel Prize for math and computer science
Alex Lubotzky, ex-lawmaker for now defunct Third Way party, cited as one of world’s most important researchers in group theory
By JTA
Illustrative: Students learning in an Israeli Hand in Hand school, where the curriculum is both in Hebrew and Arabic. (Courtesy: Debbie Hill)
August 31, 2017, 2:57 pm
Some education gaps between Jews and Arabs nearly closed, report says
By taking socioeconomic background of students into account, scholar says, differences ‘much smaller’ than previously portrayed
By Dov Lieber
Iranian-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, who became the first woman to win the Fields Medal in 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/News of the World)
July 16, 2017, 8:00 am
Iranian math genius Maryam Mirzakhani dies at 40
Fields Medal winner seen as example to women looking to enter the sciences, credited with launching ‘new era’ in mathematics
By Carlos HAMANN
Hartman High School students take their matriculation exams in mathematics (: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 9, 2017, 1:35 pm
In tech, girls study more than boys but are less confident – survey
Rashi Foundation study looks at 389 Israeli students in grades 11-12 who’ll be tested in math, computers this month
By Shoshanna Solomon
Cleaners at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon attend ERETZ Hebrew class, January 2017. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)
February 10, 2017, 4:17 am
No Hebrew, no problem: Nonprofit teaches illiterate workers while on the job
Led by idealistic professor, college student volunteers instruct hospital and university cleaners in basic Hebrew, English and math
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Israeli students arrive to their first day of school at "Shabach Mofat" school in Tel Aviv on September 1, 2016. (Flash90)
December 6, 2016, 6:20 pm
Study: Israel has greatest educational gaps in OECD
International survey finds wide disparity between Jews and Arabs, high- and low-income students
By ToI Staff
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