Jakob Levitzki, also known as Yaakov Levitsky (Hebrew: יעקב לויצקי; 17 August 1904 – 25 February 1956), was an Israeli mathematician.
[1] Levitzki was born in 1904 in Kherson, Russian Empire, and emigrated to then Ottoman-ruled Palestine in 1912.
[2] After completing his studies at the Herzliya Gymnasia, he travelled to Germany and, in 1929, obtained a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Göttingen under the supervision of Emmy Noether.
[3] In 1931, after two years at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, Levitzki returned to then British-ruled Mandatory Palestine to join the faculty at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Levitzki together with Shimshon Amitsur, who had been one of his students at the Hebrew University, were each awarded the Israel Prize in exact sciences in 1953, the inaugural year of the prize,[4] for their work on the laws of noncommutative rings.