Dov Tamari (mathematician)
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Dov Tamari (1911 – 11 August 2006), born Bernhard Teitler, was a mathematician. Born in Germany, he left for Palestine in 1933. He was known for his work in logic and combinatorics, and the Tamari lattice is named after him. He earned a doctorate of science from the Université de Paris. His students include Carlton Maxson and Kevin Osondu. As of 1990, Tamari was living in New York. Tamari has Erdős number 2 because he coauthored with Abraham Ginzburg "Representation of multiplicative systems by families of binary relations" in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society in 1962. Tamari died in Jerusalem in 2006.
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- Program for the Jubilee Year 2007 of the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen (PDF, in German), p. 133
- In Memoriam, Focus, October 2007