Mitrofan Cioban (5 January 1942 – 2 February 2021[1]) was a Moldovan mathematician specializing in topology, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (2000).
[2] He was born in Copceac (then in Tighina County, Romania, now in Ștefan Vodă District, Moldova), the son of Mihail and Tecla Cioban.
[2] After one year Cioban transferred to Moscow State University, where he started attending the Topology seminar of Pavel Alexandrov.
[3] Upon graduation, he returned in 1970 to Tiraspol State University as a faculty member, where he directed 17 Ph.D. theses and served as prorector and then rector.
[2] He published over 200 papers in academic journals from 1966 to 2020, mostly under the names of Choban or Čoban, and occasionally Cioban, Ciobanu, or Coban.