Biography:Dov Tamari

Short description: German mathematician

Dov Tamari (29 April 1911 – 11 August 2006), born Bernhard Teitler, was a mathematician. Born in Fulda, Germany , he left for the British Mandate for Palestine in 1933. He was known for his work in logic and combinatorics, and the Tamari lattice is named after him.

Tamari earned a doctorate of science from the University of Paris in 1951, under the direction of Paul Dubreil. His students include Carlton Maxson and Kevin Osondu. Tamari was living in New York City in 1990 and died in Jerusalem in 2006.

Selected publications

• Tamari, Dov (1948). "On a certain classification of rings and semigroups". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 54 (2): 153–159. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1948-08972-8. ISSN 0002-9904. 
• Tamari, Dov (1953). "On the embedding of Birkhoff-Witt rings in quotient fields". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 4 (2): 197–202. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1953-0053920-5. ISSN 0002-9939. 
• Tamari, Dov (1954). "Monoïdes préordonnés et chaînes de Malcev". Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France 82: 53–96. doi:10.24033/bsmf.1446. http://www.numdam.org/article/BSMF_1954__82__53_0.pdf. 
• Bunting, Paul W.; van Leeuwen, Jan; Tamari, Dov (1978). "Deciding associativity for partial multiplication tables of order [math]\displaystyle{ 3 }[/math]". Mathematics of Computation 32 (142): 593. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1978-0498906-7. ISSN 0025-5718. 

References

• Program for the Jubilee Year 2007 of the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen (PDF, in German), p. 133
• In Memoriam, Focus, October 2007

See also

• Associahedra, Tamari Lattices and Related Structures: Tamari Memorial Festschrift