David Emmanuel (mathematician) explained

David Emmanuel
Birth Date:January 31, 1854
Birth Place:Bucharest, Wallachia
Death Place:Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Field:Mathematician
Work Institution:University of Bucharest
Nationality:Romanian
Alma Mater:University of Paris
Thesis Title:Étude des intégrales abstraites du troisième espèce
Thesis Url:http://jubilotheque.upmc.fr/fonds-theses/TH_000301_001/document.pdf?name=TH_000301_001_pdf.pdf
Thesis Year:1879
Doctoral Advisor:Victor Puiseux
Notable Students:Traian Lalescu
Simion Stoilow
Gheorghe Țițeica
Known For:Founder of modern mathematics school in Romania

David Emmanuel (31 January 1854 – 4 February 1941) was a Romanian Jewish mathematician and member of the Romanian Academy, considered to be the founder of the modern mathematics school in Romania.

Born in Bucharest, Emmanuel studied at Gheorghe Lazăr and Gheorghe Șincai high schools.[1] In 1873 he went to Paris, where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1879 with a thesis on Study of abelian integrals of the third species, becoming the second Romanian to have a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Sorbonne (the first one was Spiru Haret). The thesis defense committee consisted of Victor Puiseux (advisor), Charles Briot, and Jean-Claude Bouquet.[2]

In 1882, Emmanuel became a professor of superior algebra and function theory at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Bucharest.[3] Here, in 1888, he held the first courses on group theory and on Galois theory, and introduced set theory in Romanian education.[4] Among his students were Anton Davidoglu, Alexandru Froda, Traian Lalescu, Grigore Moisil,, Miron Nicolescu, Octav Onicescu, Dimitrie Pompeiu, Simion Stoilow, and Gheorghe Țițeica. Emmanuel had an important role in the introduction of modern mathematics and of the rigorous approach to mathematics in Romania.

Emmanuel was the president of the first Congress of Romanian Mathematicians, held in 1929 in Cluj. He died in Bucharest in 1941.

A street in the Dorobanți neighborhood of Bucharest is named after him.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: David Emmanuel a fost matematician român, considerat întemeietorul școlii matematicii moderne din România. ro. jurnalfm.ro. February 4, 2022. May 9, 2024.
  2. Étude des intégrales abstraites du troisième espèce. David. Emmanuel. 1879. University of Paris. fr. 2020-10-19. 2018-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20181215022329/http://jubilotheque.upmc.fr/fonds-theses/TH_000301_001/document.pdf?name=TH_000301_001_pdf.pdf. dead.
  3. Web site: Mathematics in Bucharest throughout the years. University of Bucharest. May 9, 2024.
  4. Corduneanu. Constantin. 2011. The Centennial of a Romanian Mathematical School. AIP Conference Proceedings. 1329. 3. 3–15. 10.1063/1.3546071.