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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mihailo Petrović is the 661st most popular mathematician (down from 430th in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 145th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mihailo Petrović ranks 661 out of 1,004. Before him are Johan Jensen, Aleksey Krylov, Olga Taussky-Todd, Michael Artin, Ludwig Schläfli, and Oswald Veblen. After him are Robert Simson, Georg Stiernhielm, Alfréd Rényi, Agner Krarup Erlang, Louis Bachelier, and Cesare Arzelà.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Mihailo Petrović ranks 151. Before him are José Vianna da Motta, Max von Schillings, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Jonas Staugaitis, Wallace Clement Sabine, and Panagis Tsaldaris. After him are Edward S. Curtis, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, Nikolaos Trikoupis, Constance Markievicz, Heinrich Schenker, and Federico Tinoco Granados. Among people deceased in 1943, Mihailo Petrović ranks 152. Before him are Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, Helen Herron Taft, Kristjan Raud, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Aleš Hrdlička, and Damrong Rajanubhab. After him are Vittorio Sella, Aliagha Shikhlinski, Nikolai Avksentiev, George Hillyard, Harry Baur, and Ioannis Persakis.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Mihailo Petrović ranks 211 out of 661. Before him are Milovan Glišić (1847), Želimir Žilnik (1942), Goran Paskaljević (1947), Peter Leko (1979), Zoran Lilić (1953), and Mirjana Karanović (1957). After him are Đorđe Vujadinović (1909), Jovan Sterija Popović (1806), Lazar Ristovski (1952), Bogoljub Jevtić (1886), Milenko Radomar Vesnić (1862), and Marija Šerifović (1984).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Serbia

Among mathematicians born in Serbia, Mihailo Petrović ranks 1. 

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