Ali Nesin’s CV
October 19, 2022
Name, Surname : Hüseyin Ali Nesin
Place, Date of Birth : Istanbul, 1957
Citizenship : Turkish
Languages : Turkish, French, English and some Italian
Current Address : Nesin Vakfı, PK 5 Çatalca Istanbul Turkey
Telephone : 0212 311 54 23
E-Mail : anesin@bilgi.edu.tr and anesin@nesinvakfi.org
Web Site : www.alinesin.org
Education
1967-1973. Collège Saint Joseph (Junior high school)
1973-1977. Collège Champittet, Lausanne – Switzerland (high school)
1977-1981. Université Paris 7 (Jussieu), Mathematics (Maitrise)
1981-1985. Yale University, New Haven USA, PhD in Mathematics (“Groups of Finite Morley Rank, model theory and algebra)
Academic Career
1982-1985. Yale University, Research Assistant
1985-1986. University of California at Berkeley, Instructor
1987-1988. Notre Dame University, Visiting Assistant Professor
1988-1991. University of California at Irvine, Assistant Professor
1989. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, Visitor
1991-1996. University of California at Irvine, Associate Professor
1993-1994. Bilkent University, Visiting Professor
1996. University of California at Irvine, Professor
1996-2022. Istanbul Bilgi University, Professor, chair of Mathematics Department (http://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/)
2001-2002. Univ. of Lyon I, Mathematics Department, Visitor
2007-today. Instructor at Nesin Math Village
2022-today. Istinye University, Professor, chair of Mathematics Department
Research Area: Logic (Model Theory) and Algebra (Group Theory)
Social and Civic Life
2018-today. Chair of Mathematics Department of Istanbul Bilgi University (http://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/)
1995-today. Director of the Nesin Foundation. (www.nesinvakfi.org)
1996-2013. Chair of Mathematics Department of Istanbul Bilgi University (http://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/)
2003-2013. Editor-in-chief of Matematik Dünyası (The World of Mathematics), a semi-popular trimestrual mathematics journal in Turkish. (www.matematikdunyasi.org)
2005-today. Executive and the founder of the Nesin Publishing House. (www.nesinyayinevi.com)
2006-2013. Director of the Corporation of the Turkish Mathematical Society
2007 -2009. Member of the Administrative Committee of the Turkish Mathematical Society (http://www.tmd.org/)
2007. Founder of the Nesin Mathematics Village (www.matematikkoyu.org) at Sirince
2009-2016. One of the editors of the Turkish Journal of Mathematics. (http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/math/)
2010. One of the editors of NTV-Bilim, a popular science journal.
2011-2015. Member of the advisory board of the Hrant Dink Foundation (http://www.hrantdink.org/)
2013-today. Member of the Independent Association of Academy of Sciences (http://bilimakademisi.org/independent-science-academy-turkey)
2016-today. Founding member of Sirince Archaeological Association
Honours, Awards, Scholarships
1981-1985. Yale University, scholarship and teaching and research assistantship
1988-1990. National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant.
1992-1995. National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant.
1995-1997. National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant.
2010, 14 October. “Fark Yaratanlar” (Difference Makers) Sabancı Vakfı.
2010. Six sets of lecture notes (Sayıların İnşası – Construction of Number Systems I and II, Aksiyomatik Kümeler Kuramı – Axiomatic set Theory I-II, Temel Analiz – Foundational Analysis I ve II) are accepted as “open source material” by TÜBA, the Turkish Academy of Sciences. (http://www.acikders.org.tr/course/view.php?id=25)
2011. The monograph Sezgisel Kümeler Kuramı (Intuitive Set Theory) won the first prize of TÜBA (the Turkish Academy of Sciences) among natural science books (shared with two others, http://www.tuba.gov.tr/tr/haberler/tuba-dan-haberler/kurumdan-haberler/1535-telif-oeduelue-2011.html)
2011. The monograph Sayma (Counting) won the mention prize of TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) among natural science books (shared with two others, http://www.tuba.gov.tr/tr/haberler/tuba-dan-haberler/kurumdan-haberler/1535-telif-oeduelue-2011.html)
2011, 25 Oct. “Bahattin Tatış Yarınlarda Var Olmak”, prize for contribution to the education of mathematics.
2012. The monograph Analysis IV (Topology) won the TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) University Textbooks Award among the natural science books.
2013. Bostancı Rotary Prize (Meslek Ödülü).
2014. Suadiye Rotary Prize (Meslek Ödülü).
2014. Vehbi Koç Prize in education, http://www.vehbikocodulu.com/
2018. Leelavati Prize IMU, International Mathematical Union), https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/leelavati-prize/leelavati-prize-2018
2021. İzmir Rotary Prize (International Rotary Federation of the 2440 Region, Meslek Ödülü).
2021. Uluslararası 2440. Bölge Rotaract Temsilciliği 12. Meslek Hizmetleri Ödülü. “Örnek Bilim İnsanı Ödülü”.
2021. Chosen “Jubilee Professor” by the Indian Academy of Sciences.
PhD Students
1993. Mark DeBonis
1993. Mark Davis
1996. Franz Delahan
2010. Meltem Özgül
Undergraduate Students with a PhD degree
Salih Azgın (Durhan) (2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Ayhan Günaydın (2008, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Haluk Şengün (2008, U of Wisconsin-Madison)
Sonat Süer (2008, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Seyfi Türkelli (2009, U of Wisconsin-Madison)
Burçin Eröcal (2011, RISC, Linz-Austria)
Çiğdem Özarı (2011, Kadir Has U., banking and finances)
Doğan Bilge (2012, Lyon U.)
Özgür Evren (2012, CUNY)
Özgür Deniz (2013, Sabancı Ü.)
Haydar Göral (2015, Lyon U.)
Gabriela Aslı Nesin (2015, U. of Leicester)
Şermin Çam (2017, Boğaziçi Ü.)
Papatya Duman (2018, İstanbul Bilgi U., economics)
Türkü Özlüm Çelik (2018, Rennes I, IRMAR)
Kutay Cingiz (2018, Maastricht)
Şafak Özden (2019, Tulane U.)
Şükrü Uğur Efem (2019, Oxford U.)
Burçin Güneş (2019, Sabancı Ü.)
Derya Çıray (2019, U. of Konstantz)
Uğur Doğan (Humboldt U. of Berlin)
Fırat Yaşar (2020, Strasbourg U., IRMA)
Özge Ülkem (2020, Heiderberg U.)
Undergraduate Students on their way to PhD
Ahmet Nedim Narman (Yeditepe Ü.)
Doğa Güçtenkorkmaz
Ayçin İplikçi (Ohio State U.)
Zeynep Kısakürek (HHU Düsseldorf)
Melike Efe (Sabancı Ü.)
Halime Ömrüuzun (Sabancı Ü.)
Irmak Balçık (Southern California U.)
Tuğba Yesin (Sabancı Ü.)
Undergraduate Students on their way to MS
Burcu Barsakçı (Sabancı Ü.)
Tuğçe Ulutaş (Sabancı Ü.)
Ezgi Öztekin (Koç Ü.)
Academic Books and Monographs in English
[1] Groups of finite Morley rank, Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University 1985.
[2] (Coeditor with A. Pillay) Model Theory of Groups, Proc. of the Notre Dame Logic Year, Notre Dame Math. Lectures (1989).
[3] (with A.V. Borovik) Groups of Finite Morley Rank, Oxford University Press. 430 pages, (1994).
Undergraduate and Graduate Level Mathematics Books in Turkish
[1] Analiz I (axioms of real numbers, sequences and series), Nesin Publishing House 2011 Oct. Several printings since then.
[2] Analiz IV (topology), Publishing House 2011 December. Several printings since then.
[3] Temel Grup Teorisi (basic group theory), Nesin Yayınevi 2014.
[4] Analiz II (continuity), Nesin Publishing House 2011 Oct. Several printings since then.
Semiacademic Books on Mathematics for Beginners (High schoolers and up)
[1] Matematiğe Giriş I : Önermeler Mantığı (Introduction to Mathematics I : Propositional Logic), in Turkish. At Nesin Yayıncılık June 1994 and 1995, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları October 2001 and April 2004, Nesin Yayıncılık March 2009.
[2] Matematiğe Giriş II : Sezgisel Kümeler Kuramı (Introduction to Mathematics II : Naive Set Theory), in Turkish, Nesin Yayıncılık 2008. Won the best price of TÜBA (the Turkish Academy of Sciences) among natural science books (shared with two others, http://www.tuba.gov.tr/tr/haberler/tuba-dan-haberler/kurumdan-haberler/1535-telif-oeduelue-2011.html)
[3] Matematiğe Giriş III : Sayma (Introduction to Mathematics III : Counting), in Turkish, Nesin Yayıncılık, March 2009. Won the mention price of TÜBA (the Turkish Academy of Sciences) among natural science books (shared with two others, http://www.tuba.gov.tr/tr/haberler/tuba-dan-haberler/kurumdan-haberler/1535-telif-oeduelue-2011.html)
Lecture Notes
[1] Set Theory, unpublished and incomplete, 170 pages, at:
[2] Algebra, unpublished and incomplete, 176 pages, at:
[3] Analysis, unpublished and incomplete, 193 pages, at:
[4] Sayıların İnşası I ve II (Construction of Number Systems I and II), lecture notes for two semesters, 478 pages: Accepted by TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) 2010. At http://www.acikders.org.tr/course/view.php?id=24 and http://www.acikders.org.tr/course/view.php?id=27.
[5] Aksiyomatik Kümeler Kuramı I ve II (Axiomatic Set Theory I and II), lecture notes for two semesters, 374 pages: Accepted by TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) 2010. At http://www.acikders.org.tr/course/view.php?id=25 and http://www.acikders.org.tr/course/view.php?id=26.
[6] Analiz I ve II (Analysis), lecture notes for two semesters, 710 pages: Accepted by TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) 2010. At http://www.acikders.org.tr/course/view.php?id=22 and http://www.acikders.org.tr/course/view.php?id=23 or at http://matematikkoyu.org/e-kutuphane/ders-notlari/analiz_1.pdf
[8] Cebir I – Grup Teorisi (Algebra I – Group Theory), http://matematikkoyu.org/e-kutuphane/ders-notlari/cebir.pdf
[9] Popular math articles: http://matematikkoyu.org/e-kutuphane/populer.php
Mathematical Books for High School Students
[1] Kümeler Kuramı 1 (Set Theory 1), Nesin Publishing House, September 2017.
[2] Doğal Sayılar Yapısı (Structure of Natural Numbers), Nesin Publishing House, October 2017.
[3] Tamsayılar Yapısı (Structure of Integers), Nesin Publishing House, October 2017.
Popular Mathematical Books
[1] Matematik ve Korku (Mathematics and Fear), at Amaç Yayıncılık August 1989, at Düşün Yayıncılık 1994 and 1995, Istanbul Bilgi University June 2001, May 2002 and May 2003, at Nesin Publishing House November 2008.
[2] Matematik ve Oyun (Mathematics and Games), at Düşün Publishing House 1994, 1995, at Publications of Istanbul Bilgi University June 2001, May 2002, April 2004 and at Nesin Publishing House October 2007, March 2009.
[3] Matematik ve Doğa (Mathematics and Nature), at Düşün Publishing House 1995. at Istanbul Bilgi University June 2001, May 2002, October 2004, at Nesin Publishing House since December 2007.
[4] Matematik ve Sonsuz (Mathematics and Infinity), İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2001. (Several printings since then. Now at the Nesin Publishing House).
[5] Matematik ve Develerle Eşekler (Mathematics and Camels and Donkeys), İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2002. (Several printings since then. Now at the Nesin Publishing House).
[6] Matematik ve Gerçek (Mathematics and Truth), Nesin Publishing House, February 2009. (Several printings since then.)
[7] Matematik Canavarı (Monster of Mathematics), Nesin Publishing House, February 2010. Second edition 2010. (Several printings since then.)
[8] Matematik ve Sanat (Mathematics and Arts), Nesin Publishing House, December 2012.
[9] Matematikçi Portreleri (Portraits of Mathematicians) (with Ali Törün), Nesin Publishing House, September 2013.
Transliteration from the Arabic Alphabet
[1] (with Sabri Koz etal) Mum Hala I, Aziz Nesin’s diary (1951-1971). Adam Publishing House 2002. Now at the Nesin Publishing House.
[2] (with Nurcan Boşdurmaz) Birlikte Yaşadıklarım Birlikte Öldüklerim, Aziz Nesin’s recollections about his contemporaries, Nesin Publishing House 2006.
[3] (with Tülay Dikenoğlu etal) Mum Hala II, Aziz Nesin’s diary. Nesin Publishing House 2010.
Edited Mathematical Books
[1] Nazif Tepedelenlioğlu, Kim Korkar Matematikten, Nesin Publishing House 2007.
[2] Bekir Gür, Matematik Belası Üzerine, Nesin Publishing House 2011.
[3] Ali Yalman ve Gamze Özlem Demirkol, Şehrazat’ın 101 Oyunu, Cilt I, Nesin Publishing House 2012.
[4] Ali Yalman ve Gamze Özlem Demirkol, Şehrazat’ın 101 Oyunu, Cilt II, Nesin Publishing House 2012.
[5] Tosun Terzioğlu, Bir Analizcinin Defterinden Seçtikleri, Nesin Publishing House 2013.
