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Gheorghe Mihoc (July 7, 1906 - 1981) was a famous Romania
Romania

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n statistician
Statistician

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. He was born in Braila
Braila

Braila is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of the Braila County, in the close vicinity of Galati. In 2002, according to the official Romanian census, the city had a population of 216,292 people in 2002, making it Romania's 10th largest city....
, the son of a worker.

In 1908, his father moved the family to Bucharest
Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
. Here he attended elementary school
Elementary school

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 and the Gheorghe Sincai high school
High school

High school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term originated in Scotland and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop the...
. He enrolled at the University of Bucharest
University of Bucharest

The University of Bucharest , in Romania, is a university founded in 1864 by decree of Prince Alexander John Cuza to convert the former Saint Sava College into the current University of Bucharest....
, Faculty of Sciences, and was awarded his degree in mathematics
Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
 in June 1928.

He then went to Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 and studied statistics and actuarial studies at the University of Rome
University of Rome La Sapienza

Sapienza University of Rome is a coeducational, autonomous state university in Rome, Italy. It is the largest European university and the most ancient of the city's three state-funded universities; Sapienza was founded in 1303, University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1982, and Third University of Rome in 1992....
; he earned a Doctor of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences in July 1930.






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Gheorghe Mihoc (July 7, 1906 - 1981) was a famous Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
n statistician
Statistician

Statisticians work with theoretical and applied statistics in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it....
. He was born in Braila
Braila

Braila is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of the Braila County, in the close vicinity of Galati. In 2002, according to the official Romanian census, the city had a population of 216,292 people in 2002, making it Romania's 10th largest city....
, the son of a worker.

In 1908, his father moved the family to Bucharest
Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
. Here he attended elementary school
Elementary school

An elementary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as Primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in many countries, especially in North America....
 and the Gheorghe Sincai high school
High school

High school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term originated in Scotland and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop the...
. He enrolled at the University of Bucharest
University of Bucharest

The University of Bucharest , in Romania, is a university founded in 1864 by decree of Prince Alexander John Cuza to convert the former Saint Sava College into the current University of Bucharest....
, Faculty of Sciences, and was awarded his degree in mathematics
Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
 in June 1928.

He then went to Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 and studied statistics and actuarial studies at the University of Rome
University of Rome La Sapienza

Sapienza University of Rome is a coeducational, autonomous state university in Rome, Italy. It is the largest European university and the most ancient of the city's three state-funded universities; Sapienza was founded in 1303, University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1982, and Third University of Rome in 1992....
; he earned a Doctor of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences in July 1930. In 1930 he was appointed professor in the School of Statistics, Actuarial Studies, and Calculation, which had been established that year (it later became an Institute). The school was headed by Octav Onicescu
Octav Onicescu

Octav Onicescu was a Romanian mathematician, member of the Romanian Academy, and founder of the Romanian school of probability theory and statistics....
. There Mihoc taught courses in actuarial mathematics from 1930 to 1948.

On April 28, 1934, he earned his Doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest, in front of a commission consisting of Dimitrie Pompeiu
Dimitrie Pompeiu

Dimitrie Pompeiu was a well-known Romanian mathematician....
, as chairman, Anton Davidoglu
Anton Davidoglu

Anton Davidoglu was a Romanian mathematician of international reputation and high standing in his native nation....
, and Octav Onicescu. The subject of his thesis was On the general properties of interdependent statistical variables.

From 1937, Mihoc went to the University of Bucharest as assistant to Octav Onicescu, first at mechanics, then at algebra and probabilities calculation (1937-1942). That same year (1937) he also taught general mathematics with the students from the preparation year of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Polytechnic University of Bucharest

Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti is a technical university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in 1864 based on the older technical school of Gheorghe Lazar and it was renamed "Politehnica" in 1920....
.

Between 1942 and 1946 he was conference lecturer of general mathematics at the Faculty of physics-chemistry of Bucharest University. Then, in 1946 he was appointed professor at the Commercial academy from Bucharest, for financial mathematics (1946-1949).

In 1948, after the reform of education in all degrees, he was appointed head of the department of probability calculation and mathematical statistics at the Faculty of mathematics and physics of Bucharest University, then as professor head of department of applied mathematics.

From the autumn of 1962 he was again professor, head of the department of probability calculation and mathematical statistics (successor to professor Onicescu).

As statistician and actuar, Gheorghe Mihoc was employed on April 15, 1929 at the Central house of social insurance. He worked here as director at the directorate of insurance (1939-1940), as director of the directorate of pensions (1940-1942), as director of the Office of studies and actuariat (1942-1945). He was administrator at the House of pensions of the writers (1940-1945) and administrator at the House of pensions of the composers, painters and sculptors (1940-1943).

In 1945 he was appointed chief actuary of the Central house of social insurance.

Gheorghe Mihoc was dean of the Faculty of mathematics and physics of the Bucharest University from 1951 until 1960, and from 1960 to 1963 he was prorector of the Bucharest University.

In July 1963 he was appointed rector. He was a corresponding member of the Academy from 1955 until 1963, and on March 20 he became titular member at the section of mathematical sciences.

In April 1964 he was appointed director of the Statistical Centre of the Academy.

He was member in the old "Mathematical gazette" and member in the board of C.R.C.C.S.

In November 1964 Mihoc was awarded the title of Honorary Professor.

Being reputed as specialist in probability calculation, he was invited to different countries to give lectures in this field.

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