Olga Hadžić (25 August 1946 – 23 January 2019) was a Serbian mathematician known for her work on

fixed-point theorem In mathematics, a fixed-point theorem is a result saying that a function ''F'' will have at least one fixed point (a point ''x'' for which ''F''(''x'') = ''x''), under some conditions on ''F'' that can be stated in general terms. In mathematica ...

Early life and education

Hadžić was born in

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, on 25 August 1946, the daughter of lawyer Lazar Hadžić and the granddaughter of writer and physician . She attended both the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Gymnasium and a music school in Novi Sad. She earned a degree in mathematics at the

University of Novi Sad The University of Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Универзитет у Новом Саду, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu; ) is a public university in Novi Sad, Serbia. Alongside nationally prestigious University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad is ...

in 1968, and continued there as an assistant, earning a master's degree through the Faculty of Natural Sciences And Mathematics at the

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in 1970, and completing a doctorate at the University of Novi Sad in 1972. Her doctoral dissertation, ''Neki problemi diferencijalnog računa u lokalno konveksnim prostorima'' 'Some problems of differential calculus in locally convex spaces'' was supervised by Bogoljub Stanković. Later in life, she took up the study of tourism management and marketing, earning a master's degree in 2005 from the University of Novi Sad and a second doctorate in 2006, supervised by Jovan Romelić.

Career and later life

Hadžić spent her career at the University of Novi Sad, becoming an assistant professor there in 1973, associate professor in 1977, and full professor in 1981. She became rector of the university in 1996, the first woman in Serbia to achieve this position. She was the founding editor-in-chief of the mathematics journal ''Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Zbornik Radova Prirodno-Matematičkog Fakulteta, Serija za Matemati'' 'University of Novi Sad, Review of Research, Faculty of Science, Mathematics Series'' which later became the ''Novi Sad Journal of Mathematics'', from 1971 to 1995.

Books

Hadžić was the author of several books on mathematics, particularly focusing on

s, including: *''Osnovi teorije nepokretne tačke'' 'Foundations of fixed point theory'' Institute of Mathematics, Novi Sad, 1978. *''Fixed point theory in topological vector spaces'', Institute of Mathematics, Novi Sad, 1984. *''Numeričke i statističke metode u obradi eksperimentalnih podataka'' 'Numerical and statistical methods in processing experimental data'' Institute of Mathematics, Novi Sad, 1989. *''Fixed point theory in probabilistic metric spaces'', Institute of Mathematics, Novi Sad, 1995. *''Fixed point theory in probabilistic metric spaces'', with Endre Pap, Kluwer, 2001.Reviews of ''Fixed point theory in probabilistic metric spaces'' (2001): Christian Fenske, ; Shi Sheng Zhang,

Recognition

Hadžić was a member of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (; , SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters (, DSS). The Academy's membership has included Nobel Prize, Nobel la ...

, elected in 1991, and also a member of the

Vojvodina Academy of Sciences and Arts Vojvodinian Academy of Sciences and Art (Serbian: Vojvođanska akademija nauka i umetnosti / Војвођанска академија наука и уметности) or shortly VANU (ВАНУ) is an academic institution in Serbia in the Autonom ...

, elected as a corresponding member in 1984 and a regular member in 1990.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hadzic, Olga 1946 births 2019 deaths Serbian mathematicians Women mathematicians University of Novi Sad alumni Academic staff of the University of Novi Sad Scientists from Novi Sad Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts