About Petru Mocanu
Lived 1931 – 2016 (aged 84). Petru Mocanu was a Romanian mathematician and university teacher.
Petru T. Mocanu (1 June 1931 – 28 March 2016) was a Romanian mathematician who was elected in 2009 as a titular member of the Romanian Academy.
Mocanu was born in Brăila. He studied at the Nicolae Bălcescu High School in Brăila, graduating in 1950. He then went to study mathematics at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, completing his B.Sc in 1953, and his Ph.D. in 1959. His dissertation, written under the supervision of Gheorghe Călugăreanu, was titled Variational methods in the theory of univalent functions. He continued as faculty at Babeș-Bolyai University, rising to the rank of Professor in 1970.
Mocanu was an invited professor at the University of Conakry in 1966–1967, and the Ohio State University in 1992.
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Romanian mathematician (1931-2016)
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Petru Mocanu was born on 1 June 1931 in Brăila.
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Petru Mocanu died on 28 March 2016 in Cluj-Napoca.
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Petru Mocanu was a mathematician and university teacher.
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Petru Mocanu was Romanian.
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