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Romanian professor
From Tales of Miletus, which created the first theorems of geometry and from Euclid, which first gave coherent form to this basic scientific discipline, mankind has always sought new roads, looking, for example, to determine the properties of space figures . A scientist, who was included in the worldwide researchers, in what is called differential geometry, is the Romanian scholar, Gheorghe Vranceanu, founder of the important geometry school in Bucharest (global differential geometry).
Born in Doagele, near Vaslui, a farmer's son, he graduated Vaslui’s high school and later, with a scholarship, the Faculty of Science (1919-1923), guided by brilliant teachers. Specialize in Italy, U.S., Switzerland, France, as a scholar of the Romanian state, and then of the Rockefeller Foundation, passing his thesis brilliantly in Rome, in 1924. He refuses the academic career offered abroad and returns home.
His teaching activity starts in the country early, as assistant at the Mathematical Seminar in Iaşi (created by mathematicians Alexandru and Vera Myller), since the third year of college, in 1922. The academic career started in Iaşi, continued in the Capital, will not stop any time of his life. He was a correspondent member of the Romanian Academy (1946), since 1956 Member of the Academy RPR and, in 1963, chairman of the Academy Department of Mathematical Sciences. His research was characterized by high modernity and equal depth.
He is educated in the time when Albert Einstein created the general theory of relativity, science which use most differential geometry - ie that branch of geometry that studies local properties of surfaces around a point. Vranceanu handled, from beginning, the space geometry problem, he introduced new concepts, now became classic, such as that of "space neolonome" (while he was only 26 years!). Today they are often called "space Vranceanu". His results provoked a lively interest in the scientific world and he was invited to France to publish a monograph on this subject (published in 1935).
The work of Gh Vranceanu link closely to geometrical foundations of general relativity theory. He gave a unified theory of electromagnetic and gravitational field, starting from his own geometrical considerations.
He dedicated original studies to non-Euclidean geometry of surfaces theory, algebra, and number theory. A high prestige scientist, he was closely related to the country all his life, to the students, to the national and international scientific life.
He was a member of the Royal Society of Mathematical Sciences in Belgium, of the so-called "Circolo Matematico di Palermo", of the Mathematical Society of France and of other scientific societies at home and abroad; Gh Vranceanu devoted much of creative power to shape young people. His ideas have always aroused a strong interest in the experts world, being often invited to present them to some circles of specialists from Belgium, Holland, France, USA, FRG, China, USSR, Hungary, etc.
State Prize laureate, he was Honorary Doctor of Science of Iaşi and Bologna University and representative of Romania's Permanent International Committee of Mathematicians. International scientific terminology approved his findings of in the field of partial differential equations, by introducing the "theory of Vranceanu".
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variant spelling:
Vranceanu, Gheorghe
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Curriculum vitae
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* 1900
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Doagele Vaslui
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born
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1919 - 1923
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Iasi
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1924
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Roma
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1946
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Bucuresti
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1956
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Bucuresti
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† 1979
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Bucuresti
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died
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