Constantin Corduneanu (July 26, 1928 – December 26, 2018) was a Romanian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics at the

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. In 2015, he was elected a titular member of the

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; he was a corresponding member of the Academy since 1974.

Biography

Corduneanu was born in Potângeni,

Iași County Iași County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with the administrative seat at Iași. It is the most populous county in Romania, after the Municipality of Bucharest (which has the same administrative level as that of a coun ...

, the son of Aglaea and Costache Corduneanu. From 1940 to 1947, he attended military high school in

Iași Iași ( , , ; also known by other alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy ( , ), is the second largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County. Located in the historical region of Moldavia, it has traditionally ...

and

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. In 1951, he graduated from the Faculty of Sciences of the

University of Iași The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romanian: ''Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza"''; acronym: UAIC) is a public university located in Iași, Romania. Founded by an 1860 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, under whom the former Academia Mih ...

, Department of Mathematics. His teachers there included Alexander Myller,

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, , , Ilie Popa, , , , and . Corduneanu received his Ph.D. in 1956 from the University of Iași with thesis ''Probleme globale pentru ecuațiile diferențiale de ordin I și II'' written under the supervision of Ilie Popa. The thesis defense the committee was composed of

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, and . From 1949 to 1977 he was a faculty member at the University of Iași, advancing in rank to full professor, and serving as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics (1968–1972) and

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(1972–1973 and 1974–1977). He also held faculty positions at the

Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași The Gheorghe Asachi Technical University ( ro, Universitatea Tehnică „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iași; acronym: TUIASI) is a public university located in Iași, Romania. Classified by the Ministry of Education as an ''advanced research and educat ...

and at the University of Suceava, where he served as

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from 1966 to 1968. In 1977, Corduneanu decided to leave Romania. He first went to

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, where he taught some courses at the

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. In January 1978, he emigrated to the United States, and secured a teaching position at the

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(where he had been a visiting professor in 1967–1968 and 1973–1974). After spending a year as visiting professor at the

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, he became a tenured professor in the fall of 1979 at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he taught until his retirement in 1996. He died at Medical City Arlington in 2018, at age 90. A Festschrift in his honor, titled ''Mathematical Analysis With Applications'', was published in 2018.

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