1868 - 1943
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, Mihailo Petrović ranks 424 out of 823. Before 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.
1408 - 1472
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 418
1774 - 1825
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 419
1931 - 2012
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 420
1786 - 1856
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 421
1930 - 2019
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 422
1859 - 1937
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 423
1868 - 1943
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 424
1710 - 1790
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 425
280 BC - 210 BC
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 426
390 BC - 320 BC
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 427
1919 - 2005
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 428
1605 - 1694
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 429
945 - 1020
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 430
Among people born in 1868, Mihailo Petrović ranks 98. Before 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 99. Before 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.
1868 - 1940
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 92
1868 - 1950
HPI: 53.26
Rank: 93
1868 - 1956
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 94
1868 - 1938
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 95
1868 - 1924
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 96
1868 - 1940
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 97
1868 - 1943
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 98
1868 - 1934
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 99
1868 - 1938
HPI: 52.20
Rank: 100
1868 - 1946
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 101
1868 - 1919
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 102
1868 - 1944
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 103
1868 - 1908
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 104
1894 - 1943
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 93
1901 - 1943
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 94
1918 - 1943
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 95
1876 - 1943
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 96
1859 - 1943
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 97
1919 - 1943
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 98
1868 - 1943
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 99
1875 - 1943
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 100
1875 - 1943
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 101
1877 - 1943
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 102
1854 - 1943
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 103
1874 - 1943
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 104
1878 - 1943
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 105
Among people born in Serbia, Mihailo Petrović ranks 139 out of 564. Before 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).
1936 - 2008
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 133
1935 - 2016
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 134
1931 - 2008
HPI: 52.94
Rank: 135
1858 - 1945
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 136
1981 - Present
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 137
1950 - Present
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 138
1868 - 1943
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 139
1967 - Present
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 140
1956 - 2019
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 141
1869 - 1958
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 142
1932 - 1986
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 143
1910 - 1992
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 144
1921 - 2005
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 145
Among mathematicians born in Serbia, Mihailo Petrović ranks 1.