At the BGU department awards ceremony, a certain name appeared with spooky regularity, like subtle clues in a novel.
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| Profs. Miriam Cohen and Daniel Sternheimer at the ceremony in 2016. |
This figure was mentioned in various connections by mathematicians working in different countries---Israel, France, Japan, and Belgium---and in different areas. He was a friend, a colleague, and an advisor. And the truth turns out to be even more interesting than the imagination. A "sabra bull in a china shop", Moshe Flato was also an Air Force lieutenant who worked on Israel's nuclear program, an outstanding pianist trained by Daniel Barenboim's mother, and a first-rate mathematician and physicist.
