Le Proble `me home ´rique (1935); Epopeea lui Gilgamesh s ¸i poemele homerice
(1950). Academician Frenkian translated in Romanian from the works of Aristotle,
Sextus Empiricus, Plotin, Eschil, Sophocles, Plato and other classics. His inclinations towards mathematics are pregnant in several studies and articles, such as:
Studii de matematica ˘ sumero-akkadiana ˘, 1953; Le postulat chez Euclide et chez les
modernes, 1940. (Rusu 2016, 628).
NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN (Nicolae Georgescu) (1906, Constant ¸a –
1994, Nashville, S.U.A.) was an economist and “father of ecological economy and
bioeconomy” as well as a mathematician of Romanian origin, USA citizen. (Rusu
2016, 651–2) Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy since July 3rd, 1990.
He was also a specialist in statistics and contributed to the volume dedicated to
economy in Enciclopedia Rom^ aniei (1938–1943, coord. Dimitrie Gusti). He emigrated in the USA in 1948 and continued his activity, highly recognized in the
above mentioned fields – “Distinguished Professor Emeritus” of Vanderbilt University (Nashville). Among his numerous publications we are mentioning selectively: Toward a human economics (1974); Mechanistic dogma and economics,
Methodology and Science (1974); Energy and Economic Myths (1975);
Bioeconomic aspects of entropy (1975); Technology and economic policy (1975);
Economics or bioeconomics (1976); Energy and economic myths. Institutional and
analytical economic essays (1976); The Steady State and Ecological Salvation
(1977); Bioeconomics: a new look at nature of the economic activity (1977); Matter
matters too (1977); Prospects for growth: changing expectations for the future
(1977); The role of matter in the substitution of energies (1977); E ´ cologie et
politique (1978); Sun! A handbook for the solar decade (1978); The feeding web:
issues in nutritional ecology (1978); Matter: a resource ignored by thermodynamics (1978); Technology assessment: the case of the direct use of solar energy
(1978); Energy and matter in mankind’s technological circuit (1978); Myths
about energy and matter (1978); Energy policy: the global challenge (1979);
Demain la de ´croissance: entropie – e ´cologie – e ´conomie (1979); Energy analysis
and economic valuation (1979); Methods in economic science (1979); Entropy and
economic myths (1980); Energetic dogma, energetic economics and viable technologies (1982); La degradation entropique et la destine ´e prometheique de la
technologie humaine (1982); Energia e miti economici (posthumous, 1998) etc.
Member of the Academy of Sciences and Letters from Toscany, Honorary President of the European Society of Bioeconomy Studies, honorary member of the USA
Economics Association, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
honorary member of „Phi-Beta-Kapa” at Vanderbilt University and Doctor honoris
causa of Florence and Strasbourg. (Rusu 2016, 651–2).
MARIAN TRAIAN GOMOIU (1936, Bazargic, Bulgaria) is a biologist and an
oceanologist, academician since 2015 (Correspondent Member since 1993). (Rusu
2016, 695–6) He studied in Bulgaria, then Romania (Constant ¸a and Cluj), then in
Denmark (Zoological Museum, Institute of Physiology and Marine Research Station Helsingor, 1969–1970) and in the USA (Duke University Marine Laboratory
Beaufort, North Carolina, 1974). Since his PhD in 1973 he worked as a researcher at
the Oceanology Laboratory, Constant ¸a, at the Biology Research Center of the
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(1950). Academician Frenkian translated in Romanian from the works of Aristotle,
Sextus Empiricus, Plotin, Eschil, Sophocles, Plato and other classics. His inclinations towards mathematics are pregnant in several studies and articles, such as:
Studii de matematica ˘ sumero-akkadiana ˘, 1953; Le postulat chez Euclide et chez les
modernes, 1940. (Rusu 2016, 628).
NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN (Nicolae Georgescu) (1906, Constant ¸a –
1994, Nashville, S.U.A.) was an economist and “father of ecological economy and
bioeconomy” as well as a mathematician of Romanian origin, USA citizen. (Rusu
2016, 651–2) Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy since July 3rd, 1990.
He was also a specialist in statistics and contributed to the volume dedicated to
economy in Enciclopedia Rom^ aniei (1938–1943, coord. Dimitrie Gusti). He emigrated in the USA in 1948 and continued his activity, highly recognized in the
above mentioned fields – “Distinguished Professor Emeritus” of Vanderbilt University (Nashville). Among his numerous publications we are mentioning selectively: Toward a human economics (1974); Mechanistic dogma and economics,
Methodology and Science (1974); Energy and Economic Myths (1975);
Bioeconomic aspects of entropy (1975); Technology and economic policy (1975);
Economics or bioeconomics (1976); Energy and economic myths. Institutional and
analytical economic essays (1976); The Steady State and Ecological Salvation
(1977); Bioeconomics: a new look at nature of the economic activity (1977); Matter
matters too (1977); Prospects for growth: changing expectations for the future
(1977); The role of matter in the substitution of energies (1977); E ´ cologie et
politique (1978); Sun! A handbook for the solar decade (1978); The feeding web:
issues in nutritional ecology (1978); Matter: a resource ignored by thermodynamics (1978); Technology assessment: the case of the direct use of solar energy
(1978); Energy and matter in mankind’s technological circuit (1978); Myths
about energy and matter (1978); Energy policy: the global challenge (1979);
Demain la de ´croissance: entropie – e ´cologie – e ´conomie (1979); Energy analysis
and economic valuation (1979); Methods in economic science (1979); Entropy and
economic myths (1980); Energetic dogma, energetic economics and viable technologies (1982); La degradation entropique et la destine ´e prometheique de la
technologie humaine (1982); Energia e miti economici (posthumous, 1998) etc.
Member of the Academy of Sciences and Letters from Toscany, Honorary President of the European Society of Bioeconomy Studies, honorary member of the USA
Economics Association, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
honorary member of „Phi-Beta-Kapa” at Vanderbilt University and Doctor honoris
causa of Florence and Strasbourg. (Rusu 2016, 651–2).
MARIAN TRAIAN GOMOIU (1936, Bazargic, Bulgaria) is a biologist and an
oceanologist, academician since 2015 (Correspondent Member since 1993). (Rusu
2016, 695–6) He studied in Bulgaria, then Romania (Constant ¸a and Cluj), then in
Denmark (Zoological Museum, Institute of Physiology and Marine Research Station Helsingor, 1969–1970) and in the USA (Duke University Marine Laboratory
Beaufort, North Carolina, 1974). Since his PhD in 1973 he worked as a researcher at
the Oceanology Laboratory, Constant ¸a, at the Biology Research Center of the
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