Georgios Remoundos (Γεώργιος Ρεμούνδος, 1878 in Athens – 27 April 1928) was a Greek mathematician and a founding member of the Academy of Athens in 1926. After graduating from the

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, he studied at the

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and was given a government scholarship to study in France. He studied at the

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and then at the

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, where he received in 1905 his Ph.D. (Thèse de doctorat) with thesis ''Sur les zéros d'une classe de fonctions transcendantes''. A post-doctoral student of

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, Remoundos published in French under the name "Georges J. Rémoundos". He was a professor of mathematics at the University of Athens. He was a co-editor and co-founder, along with P. Zervos, N. Sakellarios, and K. Lambiris, of the journal ''Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de Gréce'', first published in May 1919 written about one-third in French and two-thirds in Greek. Remoundos was three times an

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: in 1908 at Rome, in 1912 at Cambridge (England), and in 1920 at Strasbourg.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Remoundos, Georgios 1878 births 1928 deaths University of Paris alumni Academic staff of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 20th-century Greek mathematicians Scientists from Athens Members of the Academy of Athens (modern) 19th-century Greek mathematicians