Biography:Constantin Corduneanu
Constantin Corduneanu | |
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| Born | July 26, 1928 Potângeni, Iași County, Kingdom of Romania |
| Died | December 26, 2018 (aged 90) Arlington, Texas , United States |
| Citizenship | Romanian-American |
| Alma mater | University of Iași (Ph.D.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava University of Texas at Arlington |
| Thesis | Probleme globale pentru ecuațiile diferențiale de ordin I și II (1956) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ilie Popa |
| Notable students | Mahmood Bijankhan |
Constantin Corduneanu (July 26, 1928 – December 26, 2018) was a Romanian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2015, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy; he was a corresponding member of the Academy since 1974.[1][2][3][4]
Biography
Corduneanu was born in Potângeni, Iași County, the son of Aglaea and Costache Corduneanu.[3] From 1940 to 1947, he attended military high school in Iași and Predeal. In 1951, he graduated from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Iași, Department of Mathematics.[5] His teachers there included Alexander Myller, Octav Mayer, Mendel Haimovici (ro), Dimitrie Mangeron (ro), Ilie Popa, Gheorghe Gheorghiev (ro), Alexandru Climescu (ro), Ion L. Creangă (ro), and Adolf Haimovici (ro).[6] 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.[7] The thesis defense the committee was composed of Miron Nicolescu, Grigore Moisil, and Nicolae-Victor Teodorescu (ro).[4]
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 pro-rector (1972–1973 and 1974–1977).[5] He also held faculty positions at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași and at the University of Suceava, where he served as rector from 1966 to 1968.[5][2]
In 1977, Corduneanu decided to leave Romania. He first went to Italy, where he taught some courses at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.[2] In January 1978, he emigrated to the United States, and secured a teaching position at the University of Rhode Island (where he had been a visiting professor in 1967–1968 and 1973–1974). After spending a year as visiting professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, he became a tenured professor in the fall of 1979 at the University of Texas at Arlington,[2] where he taught until his retirement in 1996.[5] He died at Medical City Arlington in 2018, at age 90.[3]
A Festschrift in his honor, titled Mathematical Analysis With Applications, was published in 2018.
Books
- Corduneanu, Constantin; Gheorghiu, N.; Barbu, Viorel (1968). Almost Periodic Functions. Interscience Tracts in pure and applied Mathematics. 22. New York-London-Sydney: John Wiley & Sons. OCLC 874093704.
- Corduneanu, Constantin (2008). Principles of Differential and Integral Equations. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-1-4704-5348-0. OCLC 1154534646. https://books.google.com/books?id=aub7RMxYUNsC.
- Corduneanu, Constantin (1973). Integral Equations and Stability of Feedback Systems. Mathematics in Science and Engineering. 104. New York-London: Academic Press. ISBN 9780121883508. OCLC 316566636.
- Corduneanu, Constantin (1991). Integral Equations and Applications. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521340502. OCLC 1024031605. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Integral_Equations_and_Applications/NW11QgAACAAJ.
- Corduneanu, Constantin (2002). Functional Equations with Causal Operators. Stability and Control: Theory, Methods and Applications. 16. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780203166376. OCLC 840377570. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Functional_Equations_with_Causal_Operato/QXcOVt7CFM8C.
- Corduneanu, Constantin (2009). Almost Periodic Oscillations and Waves. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09819-7. ISBN 9780387098197. OCLC 1012499956.
- Corduneanu, Constantin; Li, Yizeng; Mahdavi, Mehran (2016). Functional Differential Equations: Advances and Applications. Pure and applied mathematics. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. ISBN 978-1-119-18947-3. OCLC 1075891809. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Functional_Differential_Equations/8BF0CgAAQBAJ.
References
- ↑ "Professor emeritus Corduneanu remembered for kindness, contributions to mathematics". College of Science, The University of Texas at Arlington. https://www.uta.edu/science/news/2019/01-29-professor-emeritus-corduneanu-remembered-for-kindness-contributions-to-mathematics.php.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Mahdavi, Mehran (1 January 2020). "A Memorial Tribute to Professor Constantin Corduneanu, The Outstanding Mathematician". Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems 7 (1): 140–150. doi:10.1515/msds-2020-0115.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Bencze, Mihály (2019). "In Memoriam Constantin Corduneanu". Octogon Mathematical Magazine 27 (1): 436-437. https://www.uni-miskolc.hu/~matsefi/Octogon/volumes/octogon_2019_1_Constantin_Cordeneanu.pdf.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Aleksandrov, A. Yu.; Martynyuk, A. A.; Pavel, N. H.; Vassilyev, S. N. (2012). "Professor Constantin Corduneanu". Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory 12 (2): 111–118. https://www.e-ndst.kiev.ua/v12n2/0(39).pdf.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Zi neagră pentru România. Doliu pentru toată comunitatea științifică românească. Un ilustru român a murit". Evenimentul Zilei. December 27, 2018. https://evz.ro/zi-neagra-pentru-romania-doliu.html.
- ↑ ""Am contribuit la pregătirea a peste 7000 de studenți"". Adevărul. December 5, 2006. https://adevarul.ro/stiri-interne/societate/am-contribuit-la-pregatirea-a-peste-7000-de-768522.html.
- ↑ Constantin Corduneanu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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