Editing Cahit Arf (section)

==Biography==
Cahit Arf was born on 11 October 1910<ref>[http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Arf.html Cahit Arf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114455/http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Arf.html |date=2016-03-04 }}, by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson, at MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive</ref> in [[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 PhD from the [[University of Göttingen]] and 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 the [[Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey|Scientific and Technological Research Council]] (TÜBİTAK) upon President [[Cemal Gürsel]]'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&ndash;1966 working at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey]].<ref>[http://www.ias.edu/people/cos/frontpage?page=4 Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106144338/http://www.ias.edu/people/cos/frontpage?page=4 |date=2013-01-06 }}</ref> He later visited [[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|Bebek]], Istanbul, at the age of 87. His collected works were published, in 1988, by the [[Turkish Mathematical Society]].