Ciprian Foias

Ciprian Foias
Ciprian Foias in Tokyo 1969
Born
Ciprian Ilie Foiaș

(1933-07-20)20 July 1933
Died22 March 2020(2020-03-22) (aged 86)
NationalityRomanian
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
Known forCommutant lifting theorem
Foias constant
AwardsWiener Prize (1995)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Bucharest
Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
Paris-Sud University
Indiana University
Texas A&M University
Doctoral advisorMiron Nicolescu
Doctoral studentsZoia Ceaușescu
Adrian Ocneanu
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu

Ciprian Ilie Foiaș (20 July 1933 – 22 March 2020) was a Romanian-American mathematician. He was awarded the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics in 1995, for his contributions in operator theory.