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About Florian Luca
- Florian Luca (born 16 March 1969 in Gala?i) is a Romanian mathematician who specializes in number theory with emphasis on Diophantine equations, linear recurrences and the distribution of values of arithmetic functions.
- He has made notable contributions to the proof that irrational automatic numbers are transcendental and the proof of a conjecture of Erdos on the intersection of the Euler function and the sum of divisors function. Luca graduated with a BS in Mathematics from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Ia?i (1992), and Ph.D.
- in Mathematics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (1996).
- He has held various appointments at Syracuse University, Bielefeld University, Czech Academy of Sciences, and National Autonomous University of Mexico.
- Currently he is a research professor at the University of the Witwatersrand.
- He has co-authored over 500 papers in mathematics with more than 200 co-authors.He is a recipient of the award of a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, Latin America & Caribbean.Luca is one of the editors-in-chief of INTEGERS: the Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory and an editor of the Fibonacci Quarterly.
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