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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 74,835 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Mihailo Petrović is the 424th most popular mathematician (up from 474th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 133rd in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mihailo Petrović ranks 424 out of 823Before him are John Vitéz, Karl Mollweide, Lars Hörmander, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Goro Shimura, and Otto Hölder. After him are Johann II Bernoulli, Nicomedes, Dinostratus, Hermann Bondi, Ismaël Bullialdus, and Al-Sijzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Mihailo Petrović ranks 98Before him are Alfred Fowler, Arturo Alessandri, Carl Brockelmann, George Ellery Hale, Oskar Merikanto, and Cai Yuanpei. After him are Lauri Ingman, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, George Arliss, Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, Alois Musil, and Georgy Voronoy. Among people deceased in 1943, Mihailo Petrović ranks 99Before him are Yury Tynyanov, Prince Christoph of Hesse, Willi Graf, Agustín Pedro Justo, Kostis Palamas, and Doris Miller. After him are Ricardo Viñes, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia, Ruth Belville, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, and Yemelyan Yaroslavsky.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Mihailo Petrović ranks 139 out of 564Before him are Šaban Bajramović (1936), Lola Novaković (1935), Tommy Lapid (1931), Petar Bojović (1858), Nemanja Vidić (1981), and Mirko Cvetković (1950). After him are Aleksandar Đorđević (1967), Momir Bulatović (1956), Slobodan Jovanović (1869), Mika Antić (1932), Aleksandar Tirnanić (1910), and Milorad Pavić (1921).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Serbia

Among mathematicians born in Serbia, Mihailo Petrović ranks 1