Mocanu (1 June 1931 – 28 March 2016) was a Romanian mathematician who was elected in 2009 as a titular member of the Romanian Academy.
Mocanu was born in Braila.
He studied at the Nicolae Balcescu High School in Braila, graduating in 1950.
He then went to study mathematics at Babe?-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, completing his B.Sc in 1953, and his Ph.D.
in 1959.
His dissertation, written under the supervision of Gheorghe Calugareanu, was titled Variational methods in the theory of univalent functions.
He continued as faculty at Babe?-Bolyai University, rising to the rank of Professor in 1970.
Mocanu was an invited professor at the University of Conakry in 1966–1967, and the Ohio State University in 1992.