Mihai Botez (mathematician)

Mihai Horia Botez (18 November 1940 – 11 July 1995) was a Romanian mathematician and dissident, nicknamed "Romania's Sakharov" by the international press.[1] A leading mathematician, he played a key role in founding the study of futurology in the Eastern European country, before becoming a critic of the communist regime's catastrophic economic policies.[2] He survived four suspicious attacks, including a stabbing, a car ramming and a beating that left him hospitalized and which human rights groups blamed on the country's secret police.

Botez was granted asylum in the United States in 1987, before returning to Romania in 1989 after the Romanian Revolution.[3]

He died on 11 July 1995, at the age of 54 in Bucharest.[4]

References
  1. Echikson, William (3 March 1987). "East-bloc abuses: regionwide trend or isolated cases?. Attack on top Romanian dissident fits bleak pattern, some rights watchers say". Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on 15 September 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  2. Cătănuș, Ana-Maria (2011). "Breaking the barriers of Romanian conformism. Dissent and scientific critique of Communism in mathematician Mihai Botez' thinking. A case study," in History of Communism in Europe (Volume II ed.). Zeta Books. pp. 345–368. ISBN 978-606-8266-14-5. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  3. "Mihai Botez, Romanian Ambassador to Washington". AP NEWS. Archived from the original on 15 September 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  4. "Mihail H. Botez, 54, Envoy and Futurist". The New York Times. 27 July 1995. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 16 February 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
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