MATHEMATICIAN

Mihailo Petrović

1868 - 1943

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mihailo Petrović has received more than 78,317 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Mihailo Petrović is the 430th most popular mathematician (down from 423rd in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 139th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mihailo Petrović ranks 430 out of 1,004. Before him are John Vitéz, Alfred Clebsch, Luigi Cremona, Dinostratus, Paul Émile Appell, and Johannes Werner. After him are Pierre Vernier, Martin Kutta, Johann II Bernoulli, Nicomedes, Thomas Bradwardine, and Nikolai Luzin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Mihailo Petrović ranks 104. Before him are Edgar Lee Masters, Dawid Janowski, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Carl Brockelmann, Georgy Voronoy, and Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe. After him are Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, Infanta Blanca of Spain, Patriarch Miron of Romania, James Connolly, George Ellery Hale, and Josep Comas i Solà. Among people deceased in 1943, Mihailo Petrović ranks 102. Before him are Nordahl Grieg, Doris Miller, Franceska Mann, Otto Freundlich, Daisy, Princess of Pless, and Azim Azimzade. After him are Akira Matsunaga, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Prince Christoph of Hesse, Ricardo Viñes, Gyula Peidl, and Kostis Palamas.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Mihailo Petrović ranks 145 out of 661. Before him are Enki Bilal (1951), Ceca (1973), Aleksandar Tirnanić (1910), Petar Bojović (1858), Petar of Serbia (870), and Šaban Bajramović (1936). After him are Vladica Popović (1935), Franz Xaver von Wulfen (1728), Sinan Sakić (1956), Aleksandar Tišma (1924), Lola Novaković (1935), and Momir Bulatović (1956).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Serbia

Among mathematicians born in Serbia, Mihailo Petrović ranks 1. 

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