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Mihailo Petrović Alas

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,[1] founded engineering mathematics in Serbia,[2] and invented one of the first prototypes of a hydraulic analog computer.[3]

Mihailo Petrović

(1868-05-06)6 May 1868

Belgrade, Principality of Serbia

8 June 1943(1943-06-08) (aged 75)

Belgrade, German-occupied Serbia

Serbian

Belgrade University
École Normale Supérieure

Differential equations
Phenomenology

Mathematician

Belgrade University
Serbian Royal Academy

Charles Hermite
Charles Émile Picard

Jovan Karamata
Dragoslav Mitrinović
Radivoj Kašanin

Member of

Serbian academy of sciences and arts

Member of

Yugoslav academy

Member of

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Member of academy,

Bucharest

Member of academy,

Warsaw

Member of academy,

Kraków

Member of various societies,

Prague

Member of various societies in

Paris

Member of various societies in

Berlin

Member of various societies in France

Member of society of Italian mathematicians,

Palermo

Member of society of German mathematicians,

Leipzig

Member of , Lviv

Shevchenko Scientific Society

Member of scientific expedition for explorationof the South Pole

Member of , Belgrade

Rotary Club

Order of Miloš the Great

1st degree

Order of St. Sava

Order of St. Sava, 2nd degree

Order of St. Sava, 3rd degree

3rd degree

Order of the Romanian crown

Honorary brevet from London's society of mathematicians

Honorary president of Yugoslav Alliance of students of mathematics

Honorary doctor of science,

University of Belgrade

Dean of Faculty of Philosophy,

Belgrade

where he lived, worked, and died, is a designated historic site.

Mika Alas's House

Bogdan Gavrilović

Jovan Karamata

Trifunović, Dragan (1991). Bard srpske matematike Mihailo Petrović Alas, Prilog intelektualnoj biografiji. Belgrade: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva.

Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de Mishel Petrovitch. Paris: Press. 1922.

Publications mathematiques de l'Universite de Belgrade. Belgrade. 1938.{{}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Matematički vesnik. Belgrade. 1939.{{}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Milanković, Milutin (1946). Mika Alas. Belgrade.{{}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Zbornik radova Matematičkog instituta, SANU. Belgrade. 1953.{{}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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. Belgrade: Matematička biblioteka. 1968.

Mihailo Petrović – čovek, filozof, matematičar

Spomenica Mihaila Petrovića. Belgrade. 1968.{{}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Trifunović, Dragan (1969). Letopis života i rada Mihaila Petrovića. Belgrade.{{}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Trifunović, Dragan (1976). Proučavanje modelovanja u delu Mihaila Petrovića. Belgrade.{{}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Todorčević, V.; Šegan-Radonjić, M. (15 September 2019). "Mihailo Petrović Alas: Mathematician and Master Fisherman". . 41: 44–50. doi:10.1007/s00283-019-09901-y.

The Mathematical Intelligencer

at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Mihailo Petrović Alas

Mihailo Petrovic

The First Century of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, Petrovic

Brilliant mind of mathematician, globetrotter and fisherman – Mihajlo Petrovich Alas

Mihailo Petrović Alas: Life, Work, Times (2019)