Alexandru Froda

Alexandru Froda (16 July 1894 to 7 October 1973) was a Romanian mathematician with contributions in mathematical analysis, algebra, number theory and rational mechanics. In his 1929 thesis he provided the namesake proof of an often unnamed theorem now sometimes called Froda's theorem. He was born in Bucharest, graduated from the University of Sciences, now the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Bucharest, in 1927, and received his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1929 under the direction of Émile Borel. He was elected president of the Romanian Mathematical Society in 1946 and in 1948 became a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Bucharest. His major contribution was in mathematical analysis, beginning with the set of discontinuities of a real-valued function of a real variable.