Yaacov Levitzki
Yaacov Levitzki · Science & Medicine
Ring theory; the Levitzki radical
1904, Kherson, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1956, Israel
Ukraine · Germany · Israel
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Yaacov (Jacob) Levitzki was a mathematician who made seminal contributions to the theory of noncommutative rings, including the Levitzki radical (the largest locally nilpotent ideal), Levitzky's theorem on nil ideals, and, with Amitsur, the Amitsur–Levitzki theorem on polynomial identities. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine and taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was Jewish.
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Ring theory; the Levitzki radical
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