Neda Bokan (born 1947) is a Serbian mathematician specializing in differential geometry.

Education and career

Bokan joined the Mathematical Institute of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

as an assistant in 1969, began working at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-ba ...

in 1971, and completed a Ph.D. there in 1979, with a dissertation on

transformation group In mathematics, the automorphism group of an object ''X'' is the group consisting of automorphisms of ''X'' under composition of morphisms. For example, if ''X'' is a finite-dimensional vector space, then the automorphism group of ''X'' is the gr ...

s of almost-contact manifolds supervised by Mileva Prvanović. She eventually became full professor at the University of Belgrade, served as dean of mathematics from 1998 to 2001 and again from 2003 to 2007, and was vice rector for education from 2006 to 2012. She also worked as a full professor at the State University of Novi Pazar from 2012 to 2015. She was president of the National Entity for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education until stepping down from that position in 2019. She is the author of ten textbooks, and in 2013 became editor-in-chief of the journal ''Matematički Vesnik'', the journal of the Mathematical Society of Serbia.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bokan, Neda 1947 births Living people Serbian mathematicians Women mathematicians Differential geometers University of Belgrade alumni University of Belgrade faculty