Octav Mayer ( – 9 September 1966) was a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

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, the first to earn a doctorate in Romania. He completed his

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at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of

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in 1920; his thesis, written under the direction of Alexander Myller, was titled ''Contributions à la théorie des quartiques bicirculaires''. The Octav Mayer Institute of Mathematics of the

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(located in Iași) is named after him.Institutul de Matematica Octav Mayer
home page, retrieved 2014-07-16.

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* 1895 births 1966 deaths People from Mizil Romanian mathematicians Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni Members of the Romanian Academy of Sciences {{europe-mathematician-stub