Dimitrie Pompeiu

Dimitrie Pompeiu was a Romanian mathematician who lived from 1873 to 1954. Born in Broscăuți in Botoșani County to a family of well-to-do peasants, he trained at the Normal Teachers School in Bucharest, taught in Galați and Ploiești, and in 1898 went to Paris, where he took his doctorate in 1905 with a thesis on the continuity of functions of a complex variable under Henri Poincaré. He became professor of mechanics at Iași and from 1912 held a chair at the University of Bucharest. He also served as President of the Chamber of Deputies, was elected to the Romanian Academy in 1934 and founded the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy in 1945. His work lay in mathematical analysis, complex function theory and rational mechanics, and includes the Pompeiu problem in integral geometry and the Pompeiu derivatives.