Gheorghe Mihoc

Gheorghe Mihoc (July 7, 1906 – December 25, 1981) was a Romanian mathematician and statistician.

He was born in Brăila, the son of Ecaterina and Gheorghe Mihoc, both originally from the Banat. In 1908, his father moved the family to Bucharest. Here he attended elementary school and the Gheorghe Șincai High School. In 1925 Mihoc enrolled at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sciences, and was awarded his degree in mathematics in June 1928. In 1930 he was appointed professor in the School of Statistics, Actuarial Studies, and Calculation, which had been established that year (it later became an Institute). The school was headed by Octav Onicescu. There Mihoc taught courses in actuarial mathematics from 1930 to 1948.

On April 28, 1934, he earned his Doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest, in front of a commission consisting of Dimitrie Pompeiu, as chairman, Anton Davidoglu, and Onicescu. The subject of his thesis, written under the direction of Onicescu, was On the general properties of interdependent statistical variables.

A private high school in Bucharest, Sector 1 (founded in 1997) is named after both Onicescu and Mihoc.