Mohsen Hashtroodi

Mohsen Hashtroodi (; also transliterated Hachtroudi or Hashtroudi) was an Iranian mathematician, public intellectual, and popular lecturer. A student of Élie Cartan, he worked in differential geometry; his doctoral work led to what is now called the Hachtroudi connection.

Life Hashtroodi was born in Tabriz on 12 January 1907, received his primary education there, and moved to Tehran where he completed secondary school at the Dār al-Fonūn in 1925.

Back in Iran he taught at Dānešsarā-ye ʿāli and the University of Tehran (professor, 1941). He later served as president of the University of Tabriz (1951) and as dean of science at the University of Tehran (1957). He attended several International Congresses of Mathematicians, including 1950 (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1954 (Amsterdam), and 1958 (Edinburgh).

Hashtroodi married Robāb Modiri in 1944; they had three children (Faranak, Faribā, and Ramin). He died in Tehran on 4 September 1976 and is buried at Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, Tehran.

Selected works Les espaces d’éléments à connexion projective normale (Paris: Hermann, 1937).