Cahit Arf was born on 11 October 1910 in Selanik, which was then a part of the Ottoman Empire.
14 Facts About Cahit Arf
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Cahit Arf's family migrated to Istanbul with the outbreak of the Balkan War in 1912.
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The family finally settled in Izmir where Cahit Arf received his primary education.
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Cahit Arf returned to Istanbul University and worked there until his involvement with the foundation work of Scientific and Technological Research Council upon President Cemal Gursel's appointment in 1962.
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Cahit Arf later visited University of California, Berkeley for one year.
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Cahit Arf received numerous awards for his contributions to mathematics, among them are: Inonu Award in 1948, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Science Award in 1974, and Commandeur des Palmes Academiques in 1994.
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Cahit Arf was a member of the Mainz Academy and the Turkish Academy of Sciences.
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Cahit Arf was the president of the Turkish Mathematical Society from 1985 until 1989.
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Cahit Arf died on December 26,1997 in Bebek, Istanbul, at the age of 87.
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Cahit Arf's collected works were published, in 1988, by the Turkish Mathematical Society.
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Cahit Arf facilitated the now-celebrated visit of Robert Langlands to Turkey ; during which Langlands worked out some arduous calculations on the epsilon factors of Artin L-functions.
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Cahit Arf's portrait is depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 10 lira banknote issued in 2009.
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Since 2001 the Arf lectures in honor of Cahit Arf have been held annually at the Cahit Arf Auditorium in the Department of Mathematics of Middle East Technical University.
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Since 2006, the Cahit Arf Lecturers are invited to deliver their talks at IMBM too.