Viorel P. Barbu

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Viorel P. Barbu (born 14 June 1941) is a Romanian mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations, control theory, and stochastic differential equations.

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Biography

He was born in Deleni, Vaslui County, Romania. [1] He attended the Mihail Kogălniceanu High School in Vaslui and then the Costache Negruzzi National College in Iași. Barbu completed his undergraduate degree at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași in 1964, [1] and his Ph.D. at the same university in 1969. [2] His doctoral advisor was Adolf Haimovici; his dissertation thesis was titled Regularity Theory of Pseudodifferential Operators. [2] He became a professor at the University of Iași in 1980. [1] His Ph.D. students there included Gheorghe Moroșanu and Daniel Tătaru. [2]

In 1993, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy. [3] In 2011 he was awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, Knight rank by President Traian Băsescu. [4]

Bibliography

Some of his books and papers are: [5] [6] [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Pagina personală Acad. Viorel Barbu". uaic.ro.
  2. 1 2 3 Viorel P. Barbu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. (in Romanian) Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent at the Romanian Academy site
  4. "Decret nr. 639 din 7 iulie 2011 privind conferirea unor decorații". legislatie.just.ro (in Romanian). July 7, 2011. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  5. "Books by Viorel Barbu (Author of Differential Equations)". goodreads.com.
  6. Viorel P. Barbu publications indexed by Google Scholar
  7. "Viorel Barbu (Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iași) on ResearchGate - Expertise: Analysis, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering". researchgate.net.