Tiberiu Popoviciu's biography

Tiberiu Popoviciu is the founder of the Cluj-Napoca school of numerical analysis and approximation theory.

1906

T.P. is born on the 16-th of February, at Arad.

1924

T.P. graduates the "Moise Nicoara" High School in Arad and is admitted to the Sciences Faculty at the Bucharest University.

1923-1925

T.P. is the editor of a school mathematical journal.

1924

T.P. is the winner of the national contest organized by the "Mathematical Gazette".

1927

T.P. takes his degree in mathematics.

1927-1930

T.P. is student at "L'École Normale Supérieure" in Paris.

1928

T.P. takes his degree in sciences at Paris.

1933

T.P. earns a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics with the dissertation "Sur quelques propriétés des fonctions d'une ou de deux variables réelles" elaborated under the guidance of Prof. Paul Montel.

1933-1936

T.P. is librarian and then assistant lecturer at Sciences Faculty of Cluj University.

1936-1940

T.P. is lecturer at the Sciences Faculty in Cernăuţi.

1940-1942

T.P. is assistent professor at the Bucharest University.

1942-1946

T.P. is professor of functions theory at the Sciences Faculty in Iaşi.

1946-1948

T.P. is professor of algebra and number theory at the Mathematics and Physics Faculty at Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.

1948

T.P. is elected as associate member of Romanian Academy.
T.P. is appointed as head of the Mathematical Analysis Department of the Mathematics and Physics Faculty at the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj.

1957

T.P. is appointed as director of the Institute of Numerical Analysis.

1963

T.P. is elected as member of Romanian Academy.

1975

T.P. dies after the Institute of Numerical Analysis is transferred from the Romanian Academy to the National Education Minister and the number of researchers is reduced from 48 to 6.