Vatroslav Bertić (7 June 1818 – 1901) was a

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Life

Bertić was born in Orehovica near

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. His parents were Josip Jakov Bertić and noble Regina Antonija Gregoroczy (Gregurovečki). By his father's side he was of military background and by his mother's side he was connected with old

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such as the Deželić and Gregurovečki families. He studied technical sciences in

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and was later employed by Croatian Ban

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in the military. Bertić worked on the

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and

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of the Croatian people. He coined a Croatian term for mathematics - ''oloslovlje''. Bertić was married to Amalija Kaltneker with whom he had five children. He died in

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in 1901.

Work in logic

In 1847 Bertić wrote a book named ''Samouka – pokus pervi'' in which he offered a rudimentary algebraic language of “thoughts and concepts” (including variables, constants, equality sign) to which the law of substitution is added, which was the beginning stage of

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. Bertić made his research independent from

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