Ali Nesin

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
Fax                             : 0212 297 63 15
E-Mail                        : anesin@bilgi.edu.tr
Web Site                    : www.alinesin.org

Education
1967-1973. Saint Joseph Lisesi (Junior high school)
1973-1977. College Champittet, Lausanne - Switzerland (high school)
1977-1981. Universite Paris 7, Mathematics
1981-1985. Yale University, New Haven USA, PhD in Mathematics

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-today. Istanbul Bilgi University, Professor, chair of Mathematics Department
2001-2002. Univ. of Lyon I, Mathematics Department, Visitor

Social and Civic Life
1995-today. Director of the Nesin Foundation. (www.nesinvakfi.org)
1996-today. Chair of Mathematics Department of Istanbul Bilgi Unşversity
2003-today. Editor-in-chief of Matematik Dünyası (The World of Mathematics), a semi-popular trimestrual mathematics journal in Turkish selling more than 10.000 copies. (www.matematikdunyasi.org)
2005-today. Executive and the founder of the Nesin Publishing House. (www.nesinyayinevi.com)
2006-today. Director of the Corporation of the Turkish Mathematical Society
2007 September-2008 November. Member of the Administrative Committee of the Turkish Mathematical Society
2007. Founder of the Nesin Mathematics Village (www.matematikkoyu.org) at Sirince

Honours, Awards, Scholarships
1981-1985 Yale University, scholarship
1988-1990 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant.
1992-1995 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant.
1995-1997 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant.

PhD Students
1993. Mark DeBonis
1993. Mark Davis
1996. Franz Delahan

Undergraduate Students on their way to PhD
Salih Azgın (2001, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Ayhan Günaydın (2001, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Haluk Şengün (2001, U of Wisconsin-Madison)
Sonat Süer (2002, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Şafak Özden (2002, Sabancı Ü.)
Kıvılcım Kılıç (2003, Austin College)
Seyfi Türkelli (2003, U of Wisconsin-Madison)
Burçin Eröcal (2003, RISC)
Demirhan R. Tunç (2003, Notre Dame U.)
Doğan Bilge (2004, Michigan State U.)
Özgür Evren (2005, Indiana U.)
Özgür Deniz (2006, Sabanci U.)
Ahmet Nedim Narman (2006)
Aslı Nesin (2007, Universiteit Van Amsterdam)

Academic Books and Monographs
[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).
[4] Matematiğe Giriş I : Önermeler Mantığı (Introduction to Mathematics I : Propositional Logic), in Turkish. 1994, fifth printing in 2004.
[5] Matematiğe Giriş II : Sezgisel Kümeler Kuramı (Introduction to Mathematics II : Naive Set Theory), in Turkish, Nesin Yayıncılık 2008.
[6] Matematiğe Giriş III : Sayma (Introduction to Mathematics III : Counting), in Turkish, Nesin Yayıncılık 2009.

Lecture Notes
Set Theory, unpublished and in preparation, 170 pages, at:
http://www.math.bilgi.edu.tr/courses/Lecture%20Notes/SetTheoryLectureNotes.pdf
Algebra, unpublished and in preparation, 176 pages, at:
http://www.math.bilgi.edu.tr/courses/Lecture%20Notes/AlgebraLectureNotes.pdf
Analysis, unpublished and in preparation, 193 pages, at:
http://www.math.bilgi.edu.tr/courses/Lecture%20Notes/AnalysisLectureNote.pdf

Popular Mathematical Books
[1] Matematik ve Korku (Mathematics and Fear), Amaç Publishing House 1988 (several printings since then at Düşün, Istanbul Bilgi University and Nesin Publishing Houses).
[2] Matematik ve Oyun (Mathematics and Games), Düşün Publishing House 1994. (several printings since then at Istanbul Bilgi University and Nesin Publishing Houses).
[3] Matematik ve Doğa (Mathematics and Nature), Düşün Publishing House 1995. (several printings since then at Istanbul Bilgi University and Nesin Publishing Houses).
[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, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2002. (Several printings since then. Now at the Nesin Publishing House).
[6] Matematik ve Gerçek, Nesin Yayınevi, 2009.

Non-mathematical Books
[1] Correspondence of Aziz Nesin and Ali Nesin, (4 volumes) Düşün Publishing House, 1993. Several printings at Adam nd Nesin Publishing Houses in 2 volumes since then.
[2] Gömüyü Arayan Adam, a biography of Aziz Nesin, Sel Publishing House, 1998.

Transliteration from the Arabic Alphabet
[1] (with Sabri Koz) 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) Mum Hala II, Aziz Nesin’s diary. To appear.

Edited Books
[1] Böyle Gelmiş Böyle Gitmez III, third volume of Aziz Nesin’s autobiography, Adam Publishing House 1996.
[2] Gözünüz Aydın Efendim, short stories by Aziz Nesin. Adam Publishing House 1998, Nesin Publishing House 2005.
[3] Bir Vicdan Davası by Aziz Nesin, Adam Publishing House 1998.
[4] Türkiye Şarkısı Nâzım by Aziz Nesin, biography of Nâzım Hikmet, Adam Publishing House 1998. Now at the Nesin Publishing House.
[5] Okuduğum Kitaplar (Books That I Have Read) by Aziz Nesin, Adam Publishing House 2002. Now at the Nesin Publishing House.
[6] Herkesin İşi Gücü Var, short stories by Aziz Nesin, Nesin Publishing House 2005.
[7] Kim Korkar Matematikten, popular mathematical articles by Nazif Tepedelenlioğlu, Nesin Publishing House 2008.

Popular Mathematical Articles in Periodicals
[1] 21 expository (popular) articles about different mathematical subjects published from Dec. 1986 to Sept. 1988 in Bilim ve Sanat “Science and Art”.
[2] Several articles on popular mathematics in Matematik Dünyası (The World of Mathematics), a Turkish journal of mathematics for high school students 1992-95.
[3] Monthly articles on popular mathematics in Bilim ve Ütopya (Science and Utopia), weekly complement to the Turkish newspaper Aydınlık, later an independent monthly journal 1994-2003.
[4] Monthly popular mathematical articles in Bilim ve Gelecek (Science and Future). 2003-today.
[5] Several popular and less popular mathematical articles in Matematik Dünyası (The World of Mathematics). 2003-today.

Other
[1] Weekly columns on politics and art in Siyah Beyaz, a newspaper, from May 1st 1996 to 1998.
[2] Several articles on mathematics, logic, philosophy, politics, arts, education, Aziz Nesin, Nesin Foundation in several journals and newspapers. 1995-today.

Academic Books In Preparation
[1] Aksiyomatik Kümeler Kuramı (Axiomatic Set Theory), in preparation.
[2] Sayıların İnşası (Construction of Number Systems), in preparation.
[3] Analize Giriş I (Introduction to Analysis I), in preparation.
[4] Sonlu Matematik (Finite Mathematics), in preparation.

Mathematical Research Articles
[1] Definable subgroups of the product of two groups, Illinois J. of Mathematics 3 (1986) 317–319.
[2] Solvable groups of finite Morley rank, J. of Algebra 121 (1989) 26–39.
[3] Non-solvable groups of finite Morley rank, J. of Algebra 124 (1989) 199–218.
[4] Non-associative rings of finite Morley rank, in Model Theory of Groups, Proc. of the Notre Dame Logic Year, Notre Dame Math. Lectures 11 (1989) 117–137.
[5] Groups of finite Morley rank with transitive automorphism group, J. of Symbolic Logic 54 (1989) 1080–1082.
[6] (with A. Pillay) Open subgroups of p-adic groups, in The Proceedings of the 7th Eastern Conference on Model Theory, Wendisch-Rietz, Ed. B. Dahn and H. Wolter, (1989) 177–185.
[7] (with K. Enochs) On 2-step solvable groups of finite Morley rank, Proceedings of the AMS 10 (1990) 479–489.
[8] On sharply n-transitive superstable permutation groups, J. of Pure and Applied Algebra69 (1990) 73–88.
[9] On split BN-pairs of rank 1, Compositio Mathematica 76 (1990) 407–421.
[10] On solvable groups of finite Morley rank, Transactions of the AMS 321 (1990) 659–690.
[11] (with A. Pillay and V. Razenj) Groups of dimension 2 and 3 over o-minimal structures, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 53 (1991) 279–296.
[12] (with A. Pillay) Some model theory of compact Lie groups, Transactions of the AMS 326 (1991) 453–463.
[13] Poly-separated and w-stable nilpotent groups, J. of Symbolic Logic 56 (1991) 694–699.
[14] (with G. Cherlin, T. Grundhöfer and H. Völklein) Sharply transitive groups over algebraically closed fields, Proceedings of the AMS. 111 (1991) 541–550.
[15] On bad groups, bad fields and pseudoplanes, J. of Symbolic Logic 56 (1991) 915–931.
[16] Generalized Fitting subgroup of a group of finite Morley rank, J. Symbolic Logic 56 (1991) 1391–1399.
[17] Notes on sharply 2-transitive groups, Doğa, The Turkish J. of Mathematics 16 (1992) 39–54.
[18] (with A.V. Borovik) On the Schur-Zassenhaus theorem for groups of finite Morley rank, J. of SymbolicLogic 57 (1992) 1469-1477.
[19] On planar sharply 2-transitive groups, Doğa, The Turkish J. of Mathematics 16 (1992) 151–158.
[20] (with F. Delahan) Sharply 2-transitive groups revisited, Doğa, Turkish J. of Math. 17 (1993) 70–83.
[21] (with M.K. Davis) On Solvable Centerless Groups of Morley Rank 3, J. SymbolicLogic 58 (1993) 546–556.
[22] (with A.V. Borovik and M.J. DeBonis) On a class of doubly transitive w-stable groups, J. of Algebra 165 (1994) 245–257.
[23] (with A.V. Borovik and M.J. DeBonis) CIT groups of finite Morley rank (I), J. of Algebra 165 (1994) 258–272.
[24] (with A.V. Borovik) CIT groups of finite Morley rank (II), J. of Algebra 165 (1994) 273–294.
[25] (with M. J. DeBonis) On split Zassenhaus groups of mixed characteristic and of finite Morley rank, J. of London Math. Soc. (2) 50 (1994) 430–439.
[26] (with M. J. DeBonis) CN-groups of finite Morley rank, J. of London Math. Soc. (2) 50 (1994) 532–546.
[27] On Frobenius groups of finite Morley rank (I), in Automorphisms of First-Order Structures, ed. R. Kaye and D. Macpherson, Oxford University Press, 1994, 325–339. (Refereed research paper.
[28] (with D. Epstein) On Frobenius groups of finite Morley rank (II), in Automorphisms of First-Order Structures, ed. R. Kaye and D. Macpherson, Oxford University Press, 1994, 341–350. (Refereed research paper).
[29] (with A.V. Borovik) Schur-Zassenhaus theorem revisited, J. SymbolicLogic 59 (1994) 283–291.
[30] (with F. Delahan) On Zassenhaus groups of finite Morley rank, Communications in Algebra 23 (1995), no. 2, 445-466.
[31] (with T. Altınel, G. Cherlin and L. J. Corredor) A Hall theorem for w-stable groups, J. London Math. Society 57 (1998) 385-397.
[32] Permutation groups of finite Morley rank, in Proceedings of RIMS Symposium on Metamathematics and Its Applications, July 31–August 3, 1995, Kyoto Umiversity, Japan, RIMS Kokyuroku Series.
[33] (with M. J. DeBonis) There are 2^wo almost strongly minimal generalized n-gons that do not interpret an infinite group, Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 63, number 2, 1998.
[34] (with F. Delahan) On Nonsimple Split Doubly Transitive Groups of Finite Morley Rank. Preprint, 1998.
[35] (with M. K. Davis) Free Suzuki 2-Groups of Finite Morley Rank, J. of Group Theory 6 (2003) 229-243.
[36] (with A.V. Borovik and J. Burdges) Uniqueness Cases in Odd-Type Groups of Finite Morley Rank, J. of London Mathematical Society (2) 77 (2008) 240-252

Painting Exhibitions
[1999 June-July] Personal Exhibition at Kuydaş Art Galery, Kuşadası - İzmir.
[2000 August] Exhibition with Nurten Sözeri and Poyraz Topal at the Galeri Rengigül, Bozcaada - Çanakkale.
[2000 September] Exhibition with Nurten Sözeri, Emre Zeytinoğlu and Müşerref Zeytinoğlu at the State Academy of Art at Şanlıurfa.
[2001 March] Personal Exhibition of Women Portraits at the First Istanbul Women’s Biennial. Istanbul Tuyap Exhibition Hall, Istanbul.
[2003, June] Personal Exhibition of Nu’s at the Asmalımesçit Balıkçısı, Istanbul.
[2007, June] Personal Exhibition of Nu’s at the Galeri Rengigül, Bozcaada - Çanakkale.
[2007, December] Personal Exhibition of Nu’s at the Asmalımesçit Balıkçısı, Istanbul.
[2009, March] Personal Exhibition at Ankara.