Amir Aczel

DeathNovember 262015

Amir Aczel

Amir Aczel, Israeli-American mathematician, historian, and academic (born 1950)

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When
Thursday, November 26 201511 years ago
Category
DeathA notable person who died on this day.
Era
21st century · 2010s
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Person
Amir Aczel

Who they were

Biography Amir D. Aczel was born in Haifa, Israel . Amir graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, in 1969. When Aczel was 21, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley . He graduated with a BA in mathematics in 1975 and received a Master of Science in 1976. Several years later, Aczel earned a PhD in statistics from the University of Oregon . He married his wife Debra in 1984, and had one daughter and one stepdaughter. Aczel taught mathematics at universities in California, Alaska ,

Amir Dan Aczel was an Israeli-born American lecturer in mathematics and the history of mathematics and science, and an author of popular science.

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