Mihailo Petrović Alas (Serbian Cyrillic: Михаило Петровић Алас) (1868 - 1943), was an influential Serbian mathematician and inventor. He was also a distinguished professor at Belgrade University, an academic of the Serbian Royal Academy, and a fisherman. He was a student of Henri Poincare, Charles Hermite and Charles Émile Picard. Petrović contributed significantly to differential equations and phenomenology, as well as inventing one of the first...
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Mihailo Petrović Alas (Serbian Cyrillic: Михаило Петровић Алас) (1868 - 1943), was an influential Serbian mathematician and inventor. He was also a distinguished professor at Belgrade University, an academic of the Serbian Royal Academy, and a fisherman. He was a student of Henri Poincare, Charles Hermite and Charles Émile Picard. Petrović contributed significantly to differential equations and phenomenology, as well as inventing one of the first prototypes of an analog computer.
Alas was born on April 24, 1868, in Belgrade, as a first child of Nikodim, professor of theology, and Milica (née Lazarević).
He finished the First Belgrade Gimnasium in 1885, and afterwards enrolled at Natural science-Mathematical section of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. He finished his studies in 1889. Subsequently, in September 1889, he went to Paris to receive further education, and prepare for entering exam for École Normale Supérieure. He got a degree in mathematical sciences on Sorbonne...
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