The Mathematician- Florentin Samarandache

Born: 1954, Balcesti, Valcea, Romania

Graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Craiova Romania in 1979, got a Ph. D. in Mathematics from the State University of Kishinev in 1997, and continued postdoctoral studies at various American Universities after emigration in United States.

In U.S. he worked as a software engineer for Honeywell (1990-1995), adjunct professor for Pima Community College (1995-1997), and since 1997 Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, Gallup Campus, where in 2003 he was promoted to Associate Professor of Mathematics.

In mathematics there are several entries named Smarandache Functions, Sequences, Constants, and Paradoxes in international journals and encyclopedias.
Also, he proposed an extension of the classical probability and the imprecise probability to the 'neutrosophic probability', that he defined as a tridimensional vector whose components are real subsets of the non-standard interval ]-0, 1+[.

In physics he proposed the hypothesis that 'there is no speed barrier in universe' and even more: that the 'speed may be infinite' (called Smarandache Hypothesis in some Physics Dictionaries), and quantum paradoxes.

Very prolific, he is the author, co-author, and editor of 62 books, and contributed to over 100 literary and 50 scientific journals from around the world.

International Conferences:

1.        First International Conference on Smarandache Type Notions in Number Theory, August 21-24, 1997, organized by Dr. C. Dumitrescu & Dr. V. Seleacu, University of Craiova, Romania.

2.        International Conference on Smarandache Geometries, May 3-5 2003, organized by Dr. M. Khoshnevisan, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland, Australia.

3.        International Conference on Smarandache Algebraic Structures, December 17-19, 2004, organized by W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Madras, Chennai - 600 036 Tamil Nadu, India.