Svetozar Kurepa
Svetozar Kurepa (born May 25, 1929 in Majske Poljane near Glina (Croatia) , † February 2, 2010 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav or Croatian mathematician who dealt with analysis .
Kurepa came from a family of scientists, his uncle was the well-known Yugoslav mathematician Duro Kurepa . He studied mathematics at the University of Zagreb with a diploma in 1952, was at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen from 1954 to 1956 and received his doctorate in Zagreb in 1958 under Zeljko Markovic (contributions to the theory of semigroups of linear operators). He then taught at the University of Zagreb until his retirement. There he headed the Mathematical Institute for a long time. In 1999 he retired.
In 1960/61 he taught at the University of Maryland , 1966/67 at Georgetown University and 1970/71 at the University of Waterloo . In 1982 he was visiting scholar at the University of Milan .
In 1963 he won the Ruder Boskovic Prize and in 1968 the City of Zagreb Prize. In 1984 he received the Davorin Trstenjak Prize and in 2006 the National Prize of Croatia for his life's work.
He dealt with functional analysis and operator theory and wrote over 20 mathematical textbooks (including Analysis 1–3, functional analysis: elements of operator theory) and monographs and 70 scientific essays.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Svetozar Kurepa in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kurepa, Svetozar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav or Croatian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Majske Polanje |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 2010 |
| Place of death | Zagreb |