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Ion Barbu

1895 – 1961

About

Mathematician and poet, Barbu was born in Câmpulung-Muscel. Sole child of of the magistrate C. Barbilian and of Smaranda. Elementary and gymnasial school in Darmanesti-Roman and Pitesti. At the highschool from Bucharest he is remarked by the teacher Gh. Titeica, at a Mathematical Gazette contest. From 1914 he is student in mathematics. After the licence in 1921 he get a scholarship in Germany. He is affirming as mathematician and become professor at the Bucharest University from 1942. His briliant mathematical vocation is concretised in 80 studies, appreciated in the country and abroad. With his real name are consacrated the so called "barbilian spaces" in geometry. "Ion Barbu" is actually the literary pseudonym of Dan Barbilian. As a poet, he debuted in "Literatorul" in 1918. He colaborated at "Sburatorul" and Eugen Lovinescu said about him that he was a "new poet". Preocupated more about mathematics, he let us only a few literary works: "Dupa melci" (1921), "Joc secund" (1930), and