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
Gheorghe Șincai (; February 28, 1754 – November 2, 1816) was a Romanian historian, philologist, translator, poet, and representative of the Enlightenment-influenced Transylvanian School.
As the director of Greek Catholic education in Trans ...
high schools. 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
Victor Alexandre Puiseux (; 16 April 1820 – 9 September 1883) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem. His work on algebraic functions and uniform ...
(advisor),
Charles Briot
Charles Auguste Briot (19 July 1817 St Hippolyte, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France – 20 September 1882 Bourg-d'Ault, France) was a French mathematician who worked on elliptic functions. The Académie des Sciences awarded him the Poncelet Prize
T ...
, and
Jean-Claude Bouquet.
In 1882, Emmanuel became a professor of
superior algebra and
function theory at the Faculty of Sciences of the
University of Bucharest. Here, in 1888, he held the first courses on
group theory and on
Galois theory, and introduced
set theory in Romanian education.
Among his students were
Anton Davidoglu,
Alexandru Froda,
Traian Lalescu
Traian Lalescu (; 12 July 1882 – 15 June 1929) was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometry, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geo ...
,
Grigore Moisil, ,
Miron Nicolescu,
Octav Onicescu
Octav Onicescu (; August 20, 1892 – August 19, 1983) was a Romanian mathematician and a member of the Romanian Academy. Together with his student, Gheorghe Mihoc, he is considered to be the founder of the Romanian school of probability theory ...
,
Dimitrie Pompeiu,
Simion Stoilow, and
Gheorghe Țițeica
Gheorghe Țițeica (; 4 October 1873 – 5 February 1939) publishing as George or Georges Tzitzéica) was a Romanian mathematician who made important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differentia ...
. 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
Dorobanți is a neighborhood in Sector 1, Bucharest. The neighborhood is dominated by red brick buildings and glass buildings. Main intersections/squares are Perla, Dorobanți Square, , Charles de Gaulle Square, and Quito Square. Main streets a ...
neighborhood of Bucharest is named after him.
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1854 births
1941 deaths
Scientists from Bucharest
Romanian Sephardi Jews
Gheorghe Lazăr National College (Bucharest) alumni
University of Paris alumni
Romanian mathematicians
Academic staff of the University of Bucharest
Honorary members of the Romanian Academy
Mathematical analysts
Romanian expatriates in France