mathematics

Mircea Puta

Mircea Puta is a mathematics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Mircea Puta rather than just read about it. In short: Mircea Puta (February 1, 1950 —July 26, 2007) was a Romanian mathematician, the 1983 recipient of the Simion Stoilow Prize of the Romanian Academy. He is the author of over 190 articles and two books.

Key takeaways

Mircea Puta belongs to mathematics; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Mircea Puta to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Mircea Puta from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Mircea Puta (February 1, 1950 —July 26, 2007) was a Romanian mathematician, the 1983 recipient of the Simion Stoilow Prize of the Romanian Academy. He is the author of over 190 articles and two books. Puta started his undergraduate studies at West University of Timișoara in 1969, graduating in 1974. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 1979, under the supervision of Dan Papuc, after which he joined the faculty at his alma mater, becoming a Professor in 1993.

Bibliography Puta, Mircea (1993). Hamiltonian Mechanical Systems and Geometric Quantization. Mathematics and its Applications. Vol. 260. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-1992-4. ISBN 0-7923-2306-8. MR 1247960. Craioveanu, Mircea; Puta, Mircea; Rassias, Themistocles M. (2001). Old and new aspects in spectral geometry. Mathematics and its Applications. Vol. 534. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-2475-3. ISBN 1-4020-0052-9. MR 1880186. OCLC 47893050. Birtea, Petre; Puta, Mircea; Ratiu, Tudor S.; Tudoran, Răzvan (2005). "Symmetry breaking for toral actions in simple mechanical systems". Journal of Differential Equations. 216 (2): 282–323. arXiv:math/0311451. Bibcode:2005JDE...216..282B. doi:10.1016/j.jde.2005.06.003. MR 2162338. S2CID 16695256. Birtea, Petre; Puta, Mircea; Tudoran, Răzvan Micu (2007). "Periodic orbits in the case of a zero eigenvalue". Comptes Rendus Mathematique. 344 (12): 779–784. arXiv:0705.2361. doi:10.1016/j.crma.2007.05.003. MR 2340447. S2CID 115165829.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Mircea Puta

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Mircea Puta claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In mathematics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Mircea Puta before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Mircea Puta ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Mircea Puta

In research: Mircea Puta appears in mathematics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Mircea Puta in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Mircea Puta is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1950 births, 2007 deaths, 20th-century Romanian mathematicians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Mircea Puta outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Mircea Puta in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Mircea Puta means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Mircea Puta in simple terms?

Why does Mircea Puta matter?

Because it connects several mathematics ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Mircea Puta?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Mircea Puta.