Constantin Corduneanu (July 26, 1928 – December 26, 2018) was a Romanian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics at the

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. In 2015, he was elected a titular member of the

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; he was a corresponding member of the Academy since 1974.

Biography

Corduneanu was born in Potângeni,

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, the son of Aglaea and Costache Corduneanu. From 1940 to 1947, he attended military high school in

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and

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. In 1951, he graduated from the Faculty of Sciences of the

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, Department of Mathematics. His teachers there included

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, , , Ilie Popa, , , , and . Corduneanu received his Ph.D. in 1956 from the University of Iași with thesis ''Probleme globale pentru ecuațiile diferențiale de ordin I și II'' written under the supervision of Ilie Popa. The thesis defense the committee was composed of

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, and . From 1949 to 1977 he was a faculty member at the University of Iași, advancing in rank to full professor, and serving as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics (1968–1972) and

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(1972–1973 and 1974–1977). He also held faculty positions at the

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and at the University of Suceava, where he served as rector from 1966 to 1968. In 1977, Corduneanu decided to leave Romania. He first went to

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, where he taught some courses at the

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. In January 1978, he emigrated to the United States, and secured a teaching position at the

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(where he had been a visiting professor in 1967–1968 and 1973–1974). After spending a year as visiting professor at the

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, he became a tenured professor in the fall of 1979 at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he taught until his retirement in 1996. He died at Medical City

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in 2018, at age 90. A Festschrift in his honor, titled ''Mathematical Analysis With Applications'', was published in 2018.

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