Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Nation/Serbia

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The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.

-- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London

Serbia

Nikola Tesla $($$\text {1856}$ – $\text {1943}$$)$

Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
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Jovan Karamata $($$\text {1902}$ – $\text {1967}$$)$

Serbian mathematician working in analysis.

Introduced what is now known as Karamata notation for Stirling numbers.
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Miodrag S. Petković $($$\text {b. 1948}$$)$

Serbian mathematician and computer scientist specializing in the theory of iterative processes for solving nonlinear equations and interval mathematics.

Also known for his anthologies of mathematical puzzles.
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Aleksandar Ivić $($$\text {b. 1949}$$)$

Serbian mathematician notable for his work on the Riemann Zeta function.
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