Eliyahu Rips is an Israeli mathematician known for his research in algebra and the controversial Bible codes. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mathematics Look up Mathematics on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Mathematics Bogomolny, Alexander: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. ... Algebra is a branch of mathematics, which studies structure and quantity. ... Bible codes, also known as Torah codes, are words, phrases and clusters of words and phrases that some people believe are meaningful and exist intentionally in coded form in the text of the Bible. ...

Rips grew up in Latvia (then part of Soviet Union). He was the first high school student from Latvia to participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad. In 1969, Rips (who was a student at the University of Latvia at that time) attempted self-immolation in a protest against Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. After that, he was incarcerated by Soviet government but, under a pressure from Western mathematicians, he was allowed to emigrate to Israel in 1972. The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is an annual contest for high school students. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... University of Latvia is the oldest university in Latvia. ... Immolation is destruction by fire, that is, burning something to destroy it. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

After finishing his Ph.D., Rips joined the Department of Mathematics at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He became well known for his research in group theory. Rips received the Erdős prize from the Israel Mathematical Society in 1979 and was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים) is one of Israels biggest and most important institutes of higher learning and research. ... Jerusalem - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Group theory is that branch of mathematics concerned with the study of groups. ... Paul ErdÅ‘s Paul ErdÅ‘s (also Pál ErdÅ‘s, March 26, 1913 – September 20, 1996) was an immensely prolific and famously eccentric Hungarian mathematician who, with hundreds of collaborators, worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory and probability theory. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the biggest congress in mathematics. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

In 1994, Rips, together with Doron Witztum and Yoav Rosenberg, published an article in the journal Statistical Science which claimed that they have discovered encoded messages in the Hebrew text of the book of Genesis, a part of Bible. In 1997, their discovery was then described in a popular book The Bible Code by journalist Michael Drosnin. Since then, Bible codes have been a subject of much controversy. Other scientists have been mostly skeptical and have pointed out flaws in the study by Rips and his colleagues. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ... Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις, having the meanings of birth, creation, cause, beginning, source and origin) is the first book of the Torah (five books of Moses) and hence the first book of the Tanakh, part of the Hebrew Bible; it is also the first book of the Christian Old Testament. ... The holy Jewish scripture: The Torah. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bible Code is a best-selling controversial book by Michael Drosnin, first published in 1997. ... Bible codes, also known as Torah codes, are words, phrases and clusters of words and phrases that some people believe are meaningful and exist intentionally in coded form in the text of the Bible. ...