Pavle Papić (1919,
Antofagasta – 2005,
Zagreb
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mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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Papić graduated
mathematics
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from the
University of Zagreb where in 1953 he received his doctorate degree in mathematics under the supervision of
Đuro Kurepa
Đuro Kurepa (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђуро Курепа, ; 16 August 1907 – 2 November 1993) was a Yugoslav mathematician.
Throughout his life, Kurepa published over 700 articles, books, papers, and reviews and over 1,000 scientific reviews. He l ...
. From 1966 until 1968 he was a Dean (education), dean of Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Zagreb, from 1968 until 1974 a director of Institute of Mathematics in
Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slop ...
. Since 1977 he was a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 1994 a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His interests were in set theory and general topology. He found necessary and sufficient conditions for metrizability and orderability of pseudometric space, pseudometric and ultrametric space, ultrametric spaces.
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1919 births
2005 deaths
Croatian mathematicians
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb alumni
Yugoslav mathematicians