Octav Mayer
Octav Mayer was a Romanian mathematician, the first to earn a doctorate in Romania.
He completed his Ph.D. at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași in 1920; his thesis, written under the direction of Alexander Myller, was titled Contributions à la théorie des quartiques bicirculaires.
The Octav Mayer Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy is named after him.
