Career
Ganea left Communist Romania to settle in the United States in the early 1960s. He taught at the University of Washington. My algebraic topology professor, Tudor Ganea, used to say that "mathematics progresses by faith and hard work, the former augmented and the latter diminished by what others have done".
From: "Eightfold Way: The Sculpture", by Helaman Ferguson with Claire Ferguson, in The Eightfold Way: The Beauty of Klein"s Quartic Curve, edited by Silvio Levy, MSRI Publications, volunteer
