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| - Florentin Smarandache (born December 10, 1954) is a Romanian-American writer and associate professor of mathematics (WP) and science at the Wikipedia:University of New Mexico, Wikipedia:Gallup, New Mexico. Smarandache was born in Wikipedia:Bălceşti, in the Wikipedia:Romanian county of Wikipedia:Vâlcea. According to his own autobiographical accounts, in 1986 he was refused an exit visa by the Ceauşescu regime that would have allowed him to attend the Wikipedia:International Congress of Mathematicians at the Wikipedia:University of California, Berkeley. He fled Romania in 1988, leaving behind his son and pregnant wife. In 1990, after two years in refugee camps in Wikipedia:Turkey, he emigrated to the Wikipedia:United States. From 1990 to 1995, he was a software engineer at Wikipedia:Honeywell in Wikipedia:Phoenix, Arizona, and was an adjunct professor at Wikipedia:Pima Community College in Wikipedia:Tucson. In 1997, he obtained a doctorate in mathematics from Wikipedia:Moldova State University. From 1997 to 2003 he was an assistant professor at the Wikipedia:University of New Mexico, Gallup, and in 2003 he was promoted to Associate Professor of Mathematics; he is currently chairman of the Gallup Branch Department of Mathematics and Sciences.
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