Traian Lalescu

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Traian Lalescu (born July 12, 1882 in Bucharest ; † June 15, 1929 there ) was a Romanian mathematician .

Bust of Lalescu in Timișoara

He went to school in Iași , studied at the University of Bucharest and received his doctorate in 1908 with Émile Picard at the Sorbonne ( Sur les équations de Volterra ). The subject of the dissertation was integral equations . Lalescu published the first book on integral equations in 1911 (Bucharest 1911 in Romanian, in French translation: Introduction à la théorie des équations intégrales , Hermann, Paris 1912).

He was a professor at the University of Bucharest, at the Polytechnic University of Timisoara , whose first rector he was in 1920, and at the Polytechnic University in Bucharest. Lalescu was very interested in electrical engineering and had himself initiated the establishment of the Polytechnic University of Timişoara.

From 1920 to 1927 he published a four-volume textbook on analytical geometry. He is the founder of the Sportul Studențesc football club . Lalescu died of pneumonia at the age of 46.

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  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
predecessor Office successor
- Rector of the Polytechnic University of Timişoara
1920–1921
Victor Vâlcovici