Slavik Vlado Jablan ( sr, Славик Владо Јаблан; 10June 1952 – 26February 2015) was a Serbian mathematician and crystallographer. Jablan is known for his contributions to
antisymmetry,
knot theory
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, the theory of
symmetry
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and
ornament
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Ornament may also refer to:
Decoration
* Ornament (art), any purely decorative element in architecture and the decorative arts
* Biological ornament, a characteristic of animals that appear to serve ...
, and
ethnomathematics.
Career
Jablan was born on 10 June 1952 in
Sarajevo. Jablan graduated in mathematics from the
University of Belgrade (1977), where he also gained his M.A. degree (1981) and Ph.D. degree (1984) with the dissertation ''Theory of Simple and Multiple Antisymmetry in E2 and E2\''. He was a
Fulbright scholar
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in 2003/4. Jablan was a professor of geometry at the
University of Niš until 1999; subsequently he was a researcher at the Mathematical Institute of the
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
[ Crowe, D., Darvas, G., Huylebrouck, D., Kappraff, J., Kauffman, L., Lambropoulou, S., Przytycki, J., Radović, L., Sazdanovic, R., De Spinadel, V.W., et. al. (2015). ''In Memoriam: Slavik Jablan 1952–2015''. Symmetry, 7, 1261-1274. ][Kauffman, L.H., Lambropoulou, S. and Sazdanovic, R. eds. (2016). ''Remembering Slavik Jablan'', J. Knot Theory Ramif., 25(9) ]
Jablan established the online journal ''VisMath'' in 2005 and was its editor from its inception until 2014. He joined the editorial board of the journal ''
Symmetry
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'' in 2009 and was editor-in-chief from 2012 until 2015. After his death the journal printed a 14-page obituary.
[ '' Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications'' printed a special issue in his memory in 2016.][
]
Works
Books published by Jablan:
* Theory of symmetry and ornament (1995)
* Symmetry, ornament and modularity (2002)
* LinKnot: knot theory by computer (2007)
Jablan published 65 academic papers. Selected papers available in English:
Antisymmetry and coloured symmetry:
* Groups of conformal antisymmetry and complex antisymmetry In E2\ (1985)
* A new method of generating plane groups of simple and multiple antisymmetry (1986)
* Enantiomorphism of antisymmetric figures (1986)
* Colored antisymmetry (1992)
* ''Farbgruppen'' and their place in the history of colored symmetry (2007)
Knot theory:
* Nonplanar graphs derived from Gauss codes of virtual knots and links (2011)
* Knots in art (2012)
* Delta diagrams (2016)
Ornament and ethnomathematics:
* Antisymmetry and modularity in ornamental art (2001)
* Elementary constructions of Persian mosaics (2006)
* Knots and links in architecture (2012)[Jablan, S., Radović, L. and Sazdanović, R. (2012). ''Knots and links in architecture'', Pollack Periodica, 7(Suppl.), 65-76 ]
References
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1952 births
2015 deaths
Serbian mathematicians
Crystallographers