Cahit Arf was born on 11 October
1910 in Selanik (Thessaloniki), which was then a part of
the Ottoman Empire. His family migrated to Istanbul with the outbreak
of the Balkan War in 1912. The family finally settled in İzmir where
Cahit Arf received his primary education. Upon receiving a scholarship from the
Turkish Ministry of Education he continued his education in Paris and graduated
from École Normale Supérieure.
Returning to Turkey, he
taught mathematics at Galatasaray High School. In 1933 he joined
the Mathematics Department of Istanbul University. In 1937 he went
to Göttingen, where he received his Ph.D. from the University of
Göttingen and he worked with Helmut Hasse and Josue Cruz de
Munoz. He returned to Istanbul University and worked there until his
involvement with the foundation work of Scientific and Technological
Research Council (TÜBİTAK) upon President Cemal Gursel's appointment
in 1962. After serving as the founding director of the council in 1963, he
joined the Mathematics Department of Robert College in Istanbul. Arf
spent the period of 1964–1966 working at the Institute for Advanced
Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He later visited the University
of California, Berkeley for one year.
Upon his final return to Turkey, he joined the Mathematics
Department of the Middle East Technical University and continued his
studies there until his retirement in 1980. Arf received numerous awards for
his contributions to mathematics, among them are İnönü Award in 1948,
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) Science Award
in 1974, and Commandeur des Palmes Academiques (France) in 1994. Arf
was a member of the Mainz Academy and the Turkish Academy of
Sciences. He was the president of the Turkish Mathematical
Society from 1985 until 1989. Arf died on December 26, 1997,
in Bebek, Istanbul, at the age of 87. His collected works were published,
in 1988, by the Turkish Mathematical Society
references:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahit_Arf
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