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Romanian mathematician and scientist
Life science needs a favorable climate, needs people devoted body and soul and willing to create a framework for science-based thinking. A very good exemple in this respect, is the life of Alexander Myller, who founded the Mathematical Seminar of Iasi - now called "The Mathematics Seminar Myller", as recognition to the one who had a special role in the development of mathematical life in Moldova.
Alexander Myller was born in Bucharest, where he graduated high school at only 16 years old. After graduating the Mathematics Department of the Faculty of Sciences in Bucharest (1894-1899), he went for specialization in Berlin and Göttingen. He studied there for four years (1902-1906), and he improved his knowledge under the guidance of great mathematicians such as David Hilbert, Felix Klein, Hermann Minkovski. Alexander Myller obtained his Ph.D. at Göttingen. In this city he knew Vera Lebedev, with whom he married.
Alexander Myller founded in 1912, the Mathematics Seminar of Iasi. He worked together with his wife in organizing a mathematical library, which has contributed substantially to the development of mathematical school in Iasi.
Spouses Myller shared their time between the work related to courses taught at the university and the seminar and a rich social and cultural activity.
The scientific merits of Alexander Myller are related especially to the establishment of geometry school in Iasi, contributing considerably to the modernization of university life in mathematics. He was professor of analytical geometry at the University of Iasi between 1910 and 1947, honorary member of the Romanian Academy (1938), Doctor Honoris Causa of the University Humboldt in Berlin (1959). His scientific work is very broad. He published his major work on the link between certain types of integral equations and partial differential equations. His name is associated with notorious results in algebraic geometry and functional equations. Its main merit is bound to geometry, where he introduced new concepts approved by science, such as "networks Myller", "competition in the sense Myller-Levi Civitta" etc. A curve discovered by Alexander Myller was called "SMI curve”. He used to confess so beautifully: "My spirit was geometric and the beauty and variety of shapes enchanted me". Alexander Myller brought a significant contribution to the foundation and history of mathematics and geometry in Romania.
The "House of Myllers" on the hill of Copou was attended during several decades by intellectuals and students, of whom, subsequently, a lot of them become renowned scientists. Myllers example was firmly embedded in the memory to all those who knew them. They are known as great scientists, fine and modest persons, carrying profound knowledge in mathematics, but also of human thought, sensitivity to art, science and social life of the country.
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variant spelling:
Myller, Alexander
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Curriculum vitae
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* 03.12.1879
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Bucuresti, Romania
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born
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† 04.07.1965
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Iasi, Romania
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died
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