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Anton Davidoglu (June 30, 1876–May 27, 1958) was a
Romania
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mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
who specialized in
differential equation
In mathematics, a differential equation is an equation that relates one or more unknown functions and their derivatives. In applications, the functions generally represent physical quantities, the derivatives represent their rates of change, an ...
s.
He was born in 1876 in
Bârlad
Bârlad () is a city in Vaslui County, Romania. It lies on the banks of the river Bârlad, which waters the high plains of Western Moldavia.
At Bârlad the railway from Iași diverges, one branch skirting the river Siret, the other skirting th ...
,
Vaslui County
Vaslui County () is a county ( județ) of Romania, in the historical region Western Moldavia, with the seat at Vaslui.
Demographics
In 2011, it had a population of 395,499 and the population density was 74/km².
* Romanians - over 98%
* Rom ...
, the son of Profira Moțoc and Doctor Cleante Davidoglu. His older brother was General
Cleante Davidoglu.
He studied under
Jacques Hadamard
Jacques Salomon Hadamard (; 8 December 1865 – 17 October 1963) was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
Biography
The son of a teac ...
at the
École Normale Supérieure
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
in
Paris
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, defending his
Ph.D.
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dissertation in 1900. His thesis — the first mathematical investigation of deformable solids — applied
Émile Picard
Charles Émile Picard (; 24 July 1856 – 11 December 1941) was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française in 1924.
Life
He was born in Paris on 24 July 1856 and educated there at th ...
's
method of successive approximations to the study of fourth order differential equations that model traverse vibrations of non-homogeneous elastic bars.
After returning to Romania, Davidoglu became a professor at the
University of Bucharest
The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princel ...
. In 1913, he was founding
rector
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Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of the
Academy of High Commercial and Industrial Studies in Bucharest. He also continued to teach at the University of Bucharest, until his retirement in 1941.
Davidoglu was a founding member of the
Romanian Academy of Sciences
The Romanian Academy of Sciences was an institution established in Romania by a group of 26 scientists, dissatisfied with the imperfect organization of the Scientific Section of the Romanian Academy, which was left in the background, with only 12 ...
, and was featured on a 1976 Romanian
postage stamp
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.
[ Scott #2613] He died in 1958 in Bucharest.
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References
1876 births
1958 deaths
People from Bârlad
Romanian expatriates in France
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bucharest
20th-century Romanian mathematicians
Mathematical analysts
Academic staff of the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
Members of the Romanian Academy of Sciences
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