Mathematician, scholar of mechanics (B. Istanbul, 1 February 1894 - D. Istanbul, 29 December 1952). After completing Istanbul High School of Engineering (1914) he completed his PhD in Berlin University under the supervision of Albert Einstein (1919). He is the first Turkish mathematician to achieve the degree of PhD. Upon his return to Turkey he started to work in the school he graduated from as academic member. He was a member of the council to prepare the university reform. He undertook duties of analysis professorship and deanship in Istanbul University, Faculty of Science which was recently established. In the same time he continued his works only within Istanbul University. Later he became a professor in ordinary here. Between the years 1940-52 he presided the Institute of Mathematics, connected to Istanbul University, Faculty of Science. Erim, as one of the founders of mathematics of republic period and an international figure of it, pioneered the education pf differential and in...