Vasile Mihai Popov
Vasile Mihai Popov , also Vasile-Mihai Popov, (born July 7, 1928 in Galați ) is a Romanian engineer and mathematician (applied mathematics) who deals with systems theory and control theory.
Popov graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest in 1950 with a degree in electrical engineering (electronics). At that time he was concerned with frequency modulation and parametric oscillators . He was assistant professor of electronics at the Polytechnic for some time and then at the Institute of Energy of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, where he headed the control theory group in the 1960s.
He dealt with the stability analysis of non-linear feedback systems (Popov criterion, Lemma von Kalman – Yakubovich – Popov). There he introduced the concept of hyperstability in the 1960s, about which he published a monograph in Romanian in 1966, which then also appeared in English in the basic teaching series.
In 1968 he went to the USA, where he was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University and professor at the University of Maryland in College Park (Faculty of Electrical Engineering) and from 1975 at the University of Florida in Gainesville (Florida ) (Faculty of Mathematics).
In 1993 he retired.
He is a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences.
Fonts
- Hyperstability of Control Systems, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 158, Springer 1973
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Popov, Vasile Mihai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Galați |