of the Romanian Academy. He died in Bucharest on the eve of his 91st birthday, after a short illness. Legacy Onicescu was one of the founders of the Balkan Union of Mathematicians (in 1934) and of the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences in Udine (in 1968). The "Octav Onicescu" museum, founded in Botoșani in October 1995, houses furniture and memorabilia that belonged to him, including manuscripts, letters, diplomas, books, photographs, and military decorations. The memorial house doesn't exist anymore. Oniscescu defined and studied the information energy and correlation coefficient in information theory. References Biography, at the Octav Onicescu National College, in Bucharest Marius Iosifescu, "Octav Onicescu, 1892-1983", International Statistical Review, vol. 54, no. 1 (1986), pp. 97–108 Christopher Charles Heyde and Eugene Seneta, "Statisticians of the Centuries", Springer, New York, 2006. External links 1892 births 1983 deaths People from Botoșani University of Bucharest alumni Romanian military personnel of World War I Academic staff of the University of Bucharest 20th-century Romanian mathematicians Romanian statisticians Probability theorists Differential geometers Titular members of the Romanian Academy