Cahit Arf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cahit Arf

Turkish Mathematician

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1910

Place of Birth: Thessaloniki, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

Date of Death: 26-Dec-1997

Profession: mathematician, topologist

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Cahit Arf (Turkish: [d?ahit a?f]; 11 October 1910 – 26 December 1997) was a Turkish mathematician.
He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 (applied in knot theory and surgery theory) in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem in ramification theory, Arf semigroups, and Arf rings.