Svetozar Kurepa

Svetozar Kurepa ( born May 25, 1929 in Majske Poljane at Glina ( Croatia); † February 2nd 2010 in Zagreb) was a Yugoslav and Croatian mathematician who dealt with Analysis.

Kurepa came from a family of scientists, his uncle was the famous Yugoslav mathematician Duro Kurepa. He studied mathematics at the University of Zagreb with a diploma in 1952, was from 1954 to 1956 at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and was established in 1958 in Zagreb with Zeljko Markovic PhD ( Contributions to the theory of semigroups of linear operators ). Then he taught until his retirement at the University of Zagreb. There he directed long the Mathematical Institute. He retired in 1999.

1960/61, he taught at the University of Maryland, 1966/67, at Georgetown University and 1970/71 at the University of Waterloo. In 1982 he was a visiting scientist at the University of Milan.

In 1963 he won the Ruder Boskovic Price and 1968 he received the Prize of the City of Zagreb. In 1984 he received the Davorin Trstenjak Price and 2006, the National Prize of Croatia for his life's work.

He dealt with functional analysis and operator theory, and wrote more than 20 mathematical textbooks (eg 1-3 Analysis, Functional Analysis: Elements of operator theory ) and monographs and 70 scientific papers.