Tiberiu Popoviciu


Tiberiu Popoviciu was a Romanian mathematician and the namesake of Popoviciu's inequality and
Popoviciu's inequality on variances.
The Tiberiu Popoviciu High School of Computer Science in Cluj-Napoca is named after him.
In 1951 he founded a research institute which now bears his name: Tiberiu Popoviciu Institute of Numerical Analysis.

Biography

He attended high school in Arad, the school which is now the Moise Nicoara National College. He graduated from the University of Bucharest, and got his doctorate in 1933 under Paul Montel from Paris-Sorbonne University.
Popoviciu was a lecturer at the Universities of Czernowitz, Bucharest and Iasi. In 1946 he was appointed professor at the University of Cluj.
On June 4, 1937 Popoviciu was elected member of the Romanian Academy. In November 1948 he was elected corresponding member of the Academy. He became full member of the mathematical sciences section of the Academy on March 20, 1963.
He married his former student, Elena Moldovan Popoviciu, in 1964; she also became a notable functional analyst.