Đuro Kurepa
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Đuro Kurepa
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| Born |
August 16, 1907 Majske Poljane, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | November 2, 1993 (aged 86) Belgrade, Serbia |
| Residence | Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
University of Zagreb University of Belgrade |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb University of Paris |
| Doctoral advisor | Maurice René Fréchet |
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| Known for | Set theory and logic |
| Notable awards | AVNOJ Award |
Đuro Kurepa (pronounced [dʑǔːrɔ kǔrɛpa]; Serbian Cyrillic: Ђуро Курепа, English transliteration: Djuro Kurepa, French: Georges Kurepa, August 16, 1907 – November 2, 1993) was a Yugoslav mathematician. Throughout his life, Kurepa published over 700 articles, books, papers, and reviews and over 1,000 scientific reviews. He lectured at universities across Europe, as well as those in Canada, Cuba, Iraq, Israel, and the United States, and was quoted saying "I lectured at almost each of [the] nineteen universities of [the former] Yugoslavia..." His nephew was the noted mathematician Svetozar Kurepa.
Born in Majske Poljane, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, Kurepa was the youngest of Rade and Andelija Kurepa's fourteen children. He began his schooling in Majske Poljane, continued his education in Glina, and graduated from high school in Križevci. He received a diploma in theoretical mathematics and physics from the University of Zagreb in 1931, and began work as an assistant in the teaching of mathematics the same year. Kurepa then went to the Collège de France and the University of Paris, where he received his doctoral diploma in 1935; his advisor was French mathematician Maurice René Fréchet, and his thesis was titled Ensembles ordonnés et ramifiés.
Kurepa continued to receive post-doctoral education at Warsaw University in Poland and the University of Paris. He became an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb in 1937, associate professor the next year, and assumed the position of full professor in 1948. After the end of World War II and the formation of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, he traveled to five universities in the United States: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, the branch of the University of California at Berkeley and the branch at Los Angeles, California the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and Columbia University in New York City, New York.
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