Mihailo Petrovic

This article is about the mathematician Mihailo Petrović. For other people, see Mihajlo Petrović .

Mihailo Petrovic

Mihailo Petrovic , Serbian Михаило Петровић (born April 24 ^{. Jul} / 6. May  1868 ^greg. In Belgrade , † 8. June 1943 ibid) was a Serbian mathematician and philosopher who has been dealing with Analysis.

Petrovic, whose father was a professor of theology, studied after graduating from high school in 1885, first at the scientific-mathematical section of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and from 1889 in Paris , where he prepared for the entrance exams to the École normal supérieure and there and at the Sorbonne studied mathematics. In 1891 he made a mathematics degree at the Sorbonne and in 1894 he received his doctorate there under Charles Hermite ( Sur les zéros et les infinis des integrales des equations differentiels algebriques ). From 1894 he was professor of mathematics at the high school in Belgrade, the later (from 1905) University of Belgrade , where he founded a maths school. One of his students was Jovan Karamata . During the Balkan War 1912/13, in the First and Second World Wars, he served as an officer and he designed cryptographic procedures for the Yugoslav army.

Petrovic has published on differential equations, real and complex analysis, algebra, and physics, chemistry and astronomy. He also built scientific instruments such as an integrator for solving differential equations, for which he received awards at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 and in London in 1907. He also wrote travel books about his sea voyages.

His collected works were published in 15 volumes.

In 1897 he became an associate and in 1899 a full member of the Royal Serbian Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the academies in Prague, Krakow, Warsaw and Bucharest. In 1939 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Belgrade and the Order of St. Sava .

He played the violin and was very interested in fishing - he completed an apprenticeship in fishing and passed the master's examination. His nickname was Alas (river fisherman). He was also the official representative in fisheries negotiations with neighboring countries.

The Dom Mike Alasa house , in which Petrović lived with his sister and her husband and where he died in 1943, is located in Belgrade's Kosančićev Venac district and is a listed building.

See also

• Petrović's inequality

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ksenija Ciric: Dom Mike Alasa Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments Belgrade, p. 9, accessed on October 7, 2016.