| Constantin Corduneanu | |
| Birth Date: | 26 July 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Potângeni, Iași County, Kingdom of Romania |
| Death Place: | Arlington, Texas, United States |
| Citizenship: | Romanian-American |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava University of Texas at Arlington |
| Alma Mater: | University of Iași (Ph.D.) |
| Thesis Title: | Probleme globale pentru ecuațiile diferențiale de ordin I și II |
| Thesis Year: | 1956 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Ilie Popa |
| Notable Students: | Mahmood Bijankhan |
Constantin Corduneanu (July 26, 1928 - December 26, 2018) was a Romanian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2015, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy; he was a corresponding member of the Academy since 1974.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Corduneanu was born in Potângeni, Iași County, the son of Aglaea and Costache Corduneanu.[3] From 1940 to 1947, he attended military high school in Iași and Predeal. In 1951, he graduated from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Iași, Department of Mathematics.[5] His teachers there included Alexander Myller, Octav Mayer,,, Ilie Popa,,,, and .[6] 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 Miron Nicolescu, Grigore Moisil, and .[4]
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 pro-rector (1972–1973 and 1974–1977).[5] He also held faculty positions at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași and at the University of Suceava, where he served as rector from 1966 to 1968.[5] [2]
In 1977, Corduneanu decided to leave Romania. He first went to Italy, where he taught some courses at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.[2] In January 1978, he emigrated to the United States, and secured a teaching position at the University of Rhode Island (where he had been a visiting professor in 1967–1968 and 1973–1974). After spending a year as visiting professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, he became a tenured professor in the fall of 1979 at the University of Texas at Arlington,[2] where he taught until his retirement in 1996.[5] He died at Medical City Arlington in 2018, at age 90.[3]
A Festschrift in his honor, titled Mathematical Analysis With Applications, was published in 2018.