Background
Luca, Florian G. was born on March 16, 1969 in Galati, Romania. Son of Gheorghe N. Luca and Cornelia Mircea.
Luca, Florian G. was born on March 16, 1969 in Galati, Romania. Son of Gheorghe N. Luca and Cornelia Mircea.
Luca graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Iasi (1992), and Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (1996).
He has made notable contributions to the proof that irrational automatic numbers are transcendental and the proof of a conjecture of Erdős on the intersection of the Euler function and the sum of divisors function. He has held various appointments at Syracuse University, Bielefeld University, Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, and National Autonomous University of Mexico. Currently he is a research professor at the University of the Witwatersrand.
He has co-authored over 500 papers in mathematics with more than 200 co-authors and has Erdős number 1.
He is a recipient of the award of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, Latin America & Caribbean. Luca is one of the editors-in-chief of INTEGERS: the Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory and an editor of the Fibonacci Quarterly.
Member of Fibonacci Association (editorial board since 2001), American Romanian Academy of Sciences, American Mathematics Society (grantee 1998).
Married Raluca F. Focsan, December 29, 1999.