Tony Lévy

Tony Lévy (born 1943 in Egypt) is an historian of mathematics, specializing particularly in Hebrew mathematics.

His family left Egypt in 1957 for Belgium and France after the Suez Crisis but his elder brother Eddy Levy remained in Egypt. A political activist, the latter converted to Islam and took the name Adel Rifaat. He would join France in the 80s and form with Bahgat Elnadi the binomial of political scientists and scholars of Islam known under the pseudonym Mahmoud Hussein. His other brother is the activist, philosopher and writer Benny Levy. Like his younger brother Benny, Tony was an extreme left militant in the 1960s and 1970s. Provided by Wikipedia