Traian Lalescu

Traian Lalescu ( born July 12, 1882 in Bucharest, † June 15, 1929 ) was a Romanian mathematician.

He went to school in Iasi, studied at the University of Bucharest and received his PhD in 1908 Émile Picard at the Sorbonne ( Sur les équations de Volterra). Topic of the dissertation were integral equations. Lalescu 1911 published the first book on integral equations (Bucharest, 1911 in Romanian, in French translation: Introduction à la théorie of équations intégrales, Hermann, Paris, 1912 ).

He was a professor at the University of Bucharest, at the Polytechnic Institute in Timisoara, the first rector in 1920, and at the Polytechnic University in Bucharest. Lalescu was very interested in electrical engineering and had inspired the founding of the Polytechnic Institute in Timisoara itself.

1920 to 1927 he published a four-volume textbook of analytical geometry.

He is the founder of the football club Sportul Studenţesc.

Lalescu died relatively young of pneumonia.