Michael Fekete

Michael (Mihály) Fekete (Hebrew: מיכאל פקטה; 19 July 1886 – 13 May 1957) was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician.

[1] Michael Fekete was born in Zenta, Austria-Hungary (today Senta, Serbia).

After completing his PhD he switched to University of Göttingen, which was considered a mathematics hub.

In 1928 Fekete immigrated to Mandate Palestine and was among the first instructors of the Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[4] In 1929 he was promoted to professor, and eventually headed the institute, succeeding Edmund Landau and Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.

Mathematics professor Michael Fekete, the Provost of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , with his water quota, during the siege of Jerusalem