Mihailo Petrović Alas
Mihailo Petrović Alas (; 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.
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