Mircea Steriade (1924–2006)

Mircea Steriade , Florin Amzica , Dag Neckelmann and Igor Timofeev Generated Seizures . II . Extra - and Intracellular Patterns Spike - Wave Complexes and Fast Components of Cortically

In Memoriam: Laurentiu Mircea Popescu (1944–2015)

The world of cellular and molecular medicine is deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic news that Professor Laurentiu Mircea Popescu has passed away due to lung cancer on Monday morning of August 3, 2015. Professor Popescu was a world-recognized leader of cellular and molecular medicine and worked in the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, since 1991 before becoming the General Di...

Mircea Eliade: ‘Secular mysticism’ and the history of religions

This essay considers the origins of theoretical understanding in lived experience and the implications this principle might have on our understanding of Mircea Eliade’s approach to religion. It inspects possible sources of Eliade’s theoretical understanding of religion in his descriptions of his lived experience and considers whether specifically ‘religious’ experience would be most likely to b...

Last multipliers for multivectors with applications to Poisson geometry Mircea

The theory of the last multipliers as solutions of the Liouville’s transport equation, previously developed for vector fields, is extended here to general multivectors. Characterizations in terms of Witten and Marsden differentials are reobtained as well as the algebraic structure of the set of multivectors with a common last multiplier, namely Gerstenhaber algebra. Applications to Poisson bive...

The beginning and the influence of Bremer and Moruzzi

Mircea Steriade was born in Bucharest, Romania on August 20, 1924 and sadly passed away on April 14, 2006 in Montreal, Canada, at age 81, while still writing books, supervising the research of his graduate students and caring for the medical and scientific education of his younger daughter. During his scientific career, which spanned over more than six decades, he became one of the principal fo...