Academic Sendov was the
rector of
Sofia University, located in
Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Chairman of
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia. He had more than 200 publications in fields related to mathematics and computer science.
Post-1989 political career Sendov took part as an
independent in the
1992 Bulgarian presidential election with Ognyan Saparev as his running mate, finishing in 4th place with 2.24% of the votes.
National Assembly of Bulgaria From 1995 to 1997, he was the
chairperson of the National Assembly of Bulgaria; and from 1997 to 2002, he was its deputy chairperson. His candidacy for that position was supported by the
Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), the successor to the
Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). Although never a member of the BCP, Sendov had close ties to former Bulgarian
communist dictator Todor Zhivkov. The rightist
Union of the Democratic Forces removed him temporarily from that duty in 2000 when Sendov cosigned, together with four members of the BSP, a letter to the
Israeli president asking that portraits of the
Bulgarian royal family (from the 1940s) be removed from a memorial in Israel. This memorial commemorates that all
Bulgarian Jews were saved from deportation to
concentration camps during
World War II.
Bulgaria ambassador to Japan Sendov was
Bulgarian ambassador to Japan from 2004 to 2009.
Sendov's conjecture Sendov's name is attached to one of the major unsolved problems in the study of
polynomial zeros,
Sendov's conjecture (sometimes incorrectly known as Ilieff's conjecture).
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts In 2000 he was elected as a member of
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, an academic institution located in
Belgrade,
Serbia. ==References==