Aviezri Fraenkel

Aviezri Frankel
Aviezri Frankel in 2005
Born	1929 Munich, Germany
Nationality	Israeli
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Weizmann Institute of Science
Notable awards	2005 Euler Medal, 2006 "WEIZAC Medal", 2007 shared Israel Prize

Aviezri Siegmund Fraenkel (Hebrew: אביעזרי פרנקל‎) (born 1929) is an Israeli mathematician, who has made notable contributions to combinatorial game theory. He was born in Munich on June 7, 1929, but his family moved to Switzerland soon after. In 1939 his family moved once more to Jerusalem.

Fraenkel received his Ph.D. in 1961 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a recipient of the 2005 Euler Medal together with Ralph Faudree. On December 5, 2006, he received the "WEIZAC Medal" from the IEEE as a member of the team who built the WEIZAC, one of the first computers in the world.

Prof. Fraenkel was the founder of the Bar Ilan Responsa Project, serving as its initial director (1963-1974), which received the Israel Prize in 2007.

His research also delves into computational complexity, as it is important to study the complexity of algorithms which solve games.

External links and references

• Biography by Shaula Fraenkel
• Personal Homepage
• The official citation from the Israel Prize for the Responsa Project (in Hebrew)
• The official Responsa Project CV from the Israel Prize committee (in Hebrew)