About Octav Mayer
Lived 1895 – 1966 (aged 70). Octav Mayer was a Romanian mathematician.
Octav Mayer ( – 9 September 1966) was a Romanian mathematician, the first to earn a doctorate in Romania.
Born in Mizil, Prahova County, Mayer went to the primary school in Târgu Neamț and pursued his studies in an elementary school in Focșani. He then went to the National College in Iași, where he obtained his baccalaureate, and then studied mathematics at the University of Iași, where he obtained his undergraduate degree. Mayer later became a professor at the University of Iași. He was elected titular member of the Romanian Academy in 1955. He died in Iași in 1966, at age 71.
The Octav Mayer Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy (located in Iași) is named after him.
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Who was Octav Mayer?
Romanian mathematician (1895–1966)
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Octav Mayer was born on 5 October 1895 in Mizil.
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Octav Mayer died on 9 September 1966 in Iași.
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Octav Mayer was a mathematician.
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Octav Mayer was Romanian.
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