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Romanian professor
"My greatest desire - he said in a row - is to communicate to others my passion for mathematics." One could hardly conceive brilliant mathematical development of the Romanian school after the Second World War, without essential contribution Miron Nicolescu, internationally renowned scientist, who has managed to happily combine the great scientific research capacity with creation of a strong school of modern mathematical analysis in Romania and with a rich social activity.
Born in Giurgiu, the son of a primary school teacher, followed the Matei Basarab High School in Bucharest, taking his baccalaureate in 1921, and became, in 1924, graduate of the Department of Mathematics, University of Bucharest. He travelled then for specialization in Paris, where he graduated again in just two years (1926), after that he attended the famous Higher Normal School (1925-1928) and supports his doctorate (1928), with a thesis on complex variable functions. Back in the country, he occupied positions of various degrees at the University of Cernăuţi, contributing, in the interwar period, with S. Stoilow and other scientists, at increasing the scientific prestige of these institutions. In 1940, he was Professor in University of Bucharest, where he worked a lifetime, holding, in addition to the professorship, various senior positions with exemplary competence and conscientiousness: Director of Institute of Mathematics (1963-1973), Secretary General of the Ministry of Education, MP the Grand National Assembly, member of the Academy RSR (1955) and its president (1966-1975), member of Executive Chairof the National Council for Science and Technology, member of several foreign academies and scientific societies.
His research is in the important areas of mathematics, dealing with what mathematicians call "derived areolar" (introduced by D. Pompeiu in calculus), polyharmonic functions, functions policalorice (he founded the theory of policalorice functions), etc. He introduced many mathematical new concepts, such as combined areola function, the integral multiple of a differential equation, etc. Perhaps, however, his most important investigations are those on polyharmonic functions; he has developed a general theory on these functions. He dedicated its a monograph, published in Paris, in a prestigious collection of specialty. Another great mathematician, Mauro Picone, commenting on the results of the Romanian scientist, said: "Brilliant work of Nicolescu in this direction should be considered as fundamental for further research".
His role in the development of a strong current around Scientific Institute of Mathematics in Bucharest was decisive, and his opera Mathematical analysis (3 volumes, 1957-1960), is a fundamental work of contemporary Romanian science. He directly supported many young people to deepen mathematics. But his love of mathematics was not unilateral, meaning that did not stop him to deal with other creative activities of the human spirit, for example the philosophy of science and also art. "I am passionate about not only mathematics, but also poetry, literature, art, painting, all these exercised a great attraction on me, he confessed in 1968. Beauty can be found in mathematics as in any other field".
However, his creative genius manifested in mathematics; he left behind an important work. Elegantly dressed, and his extreme accuracy, completed the image of a man with great distinction.
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variant spelling:
Nicolescu, Miron
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Curriculum vitae
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* 1903
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Giurgiu
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born
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1924
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Bucuresti
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1925 - 1928
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Paris
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1926
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Paris
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1928
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Paris
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1940
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Bucuresti
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1955
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Bucuresti
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1966 - 1975
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Bucuresti
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† 1975
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Bucuresti
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died
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