Tiberiu Popoviciu

Tiberiu Popoviciu (1906–1975) was a Romanian mathematician[1] and the namesake of Popoviciu's inequality and Popoviciu's inequality on variances.

Tiberiu Popoviciu
Born(1906-02-16)February 16, 1906
Arad, Hungary
DiedOctober 29, 1975(1975-10-29) (aged 69)
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
NationalityRomanian
Alma materParis-Sorbonne University, University of Bucharest
Known forPopoviciu's inequality
Popoviciu's inequality on variances
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorPaul Montel
Doctoral studentsElena Moldovan Popoviciu

The Tiberiu Popoviciu High School of Computer Science in Cluj-Napoca is named after him.[2]

In 1951 he founded a research institute which now bears his name: Tiberiu Popoviciu Institute of Numerical Analysis.

Biography

He attended high school in Arad, the school which is now the Moise Nicoara National College. He graduated from the University of Bucharest, and got his doctorate in 1933 under Paul Montel from Paris-Sorbonne University.[3]

Popoviciu was a lecturer at the Universities of Czernowitz, Bucharest and Iasi. In 1946 he was appointed professor at the University of Cluj. On June 4, 1937 Popoviciu was elected member of the Romanian Academy. In November 1948 he was elected corresponding member of the Academy. He became full member of the mathematical sciences section of the Academy on March 20, 1963.

He married his former student, Elena Moldovan Popoviciu, in 1964; she also became a notable functional analyst.[4]

gollark: Also, TVs are expensive and I don't like looking at further away things.
gollark: In any case, the existence of the "smart" features means it will probably randomly break in exciting ways.
gollark: Is it... not the other way round, since TVs are further away?
gollark: They're "smart" now and therefore evil.
gollark: I don't like TVs.

References
  1. Breckner, Wolfgang, Profesor Tiberiu Popoviciu, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, retrieved 2015-04-19.
  2. Istoric, Tiberiu Popoviciu High School of Computer Science (in Romanian), retrieved 2015-04-19.
  3. Tiberiu Popoviciu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Elena Moldovan Popoviciu", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
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