The Most Famous
MATHEMATICIANS from Serbia
This page contains a list of the greatest Serbian Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 1 of which were born in Serbia. This makes Serbia the birth place of the 49th most number of Mathematicians behind Algeria and Bulgaria.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Serbian Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Serbian Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Mihailo Petrović (1868 - 1943)
With an HPI of 52.40, Mihailo Petrović is the most famous Serbian Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Mihailo Petrović Alas (Serbian Cyrillic: Михаило Петровић Алас; 6 May 1868 – 8 June 1943), was a Serbian mathematician and inventor. He was also a distinguished professor at Belgrade University, an academic, fisherman, philosopher, writer, publicist, musician, businessman, traveler and volunteer in the Balkan Wars, the First and Second World Wars. He was a student of Henri Poincaré, Paul Painlevé, Charles Hermite and Émile Picard. Petrović contributed significantly to the study of differential equations and phenomenology, founded engineering mathematics in Serbia, and invented one of the first prototypes of a hydraulic analog computer.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as mathematicians born between 1868 and 1868. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased mathematicians include Mihailo Petrović.
