Octav Mayer

[1] Born in Mizil, Prahova County,[2] Mayer went to the primary school in Târgu Neamț and pursued his studies in an elementary school in Focșani.

[2] In 1915, Mayer enrolled in the School of Artillery and Military Engineering [ro] and took part in the battles on the Romanian front in World War I from 1916 to 1918.

After the war, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Iași in 1920; his thesis, written under the direction of Alexander Myller, was titled Contributions à la théorie des quartiques bicirculaires.

The Octav Mayer Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy (located in Iași) is named after him.

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