Gheorghe Vrănceanu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gheorghe Vrănceanu

Romanian topologist

Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1900

Place of Birth: Lipova, Bacău County, Romania

Date of Death: 27-Apr-1979

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, topologist, geometer

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Gheorghe Vrănceanu

  • Gheorghe Vranceanu (June 30, 1900, Valea Hogei, Lipova, Bacau County – April 27, 1979, Bucharest) was a Romanian mathematician, best known for his work in differential geometry and topology.He studied mathematics at the University of Iasi from 1919 to 1922.
  • In 1923, he went to the University of Göttingen, where he studied under David Hilbert.
  • Thereafter, he went to the University of Rome, where he studied under Tullio Levi-Civita, obtaining his doctorate on November 5, 1924. Vranceanu returned to Ia?i, where he was appointed a lecturer at the University.
  • In 1927–1928, he was awarded a Rockefeller scholarship to study in France and the United States, where he was in a contact with Élie Cartan and Oswald Veblen In 1929, he returned to Romania, and was appointed professor at the University of Cernauti.
  • In 1939, he moved to the University of Bucharest, where he was appointed Head of the Geometry and Topology department in 1948.
  • He retired in 1970. During his career, Vranceanu published over 300 articles in journals throughout the world.
  • His work covers a whole range of modern geometry, from the classical theory of surfaces, to the notion of non-holonomic spaces, which he discovered. He was elected to the Romanian Academy as a corresponding member in 1946, then as a full member in 1955.
  • From 1964 he was president of the Mathematics Section of the Romanian Academy.
  • At the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Vancouver, Canada in 1974, he was elected Vice-President of the International Mathematical Union, a position he held from 1975 to 1978.
  • His doctoral students include Henri Moscovici.

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