Bogdan Gavrilović
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| Born | 1864 Novi Sad, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 1947 Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serb |
| Fields | Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy |
Bogdan Gavrilović (Serbian Cyrillic: Богдан Гавриловић) (1864–1947) was a Serbian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and educator. He received his doctorate in sciences mathematiques from the University of Budapest in 1887. He served twice as the Rector of the University of Belgrade and was elected three times as president of the Serbian Royal Academy (1931-1937). His son, Stoyan Gavrilović, born in Belgrade in 1896, was Assistant Secretary of State in the Royal Yugoslav Government.
Bogdan Gavrilović was born in Novi Sad on January 1, 1864 to Sofija and Alexander Gavrilović. Bogdan was lucky to have a grandfather as a teacher and a principal of the grammar school he attended. Furthermore, his father was a professor and director of the Lycée in the town he was born. He spent six years at the Lycée (secondary school, based on the French lycées) and during this time he proved to be one of the top students in every subject he studied. With such sound academic grounding and being an excellent student, he received the Sava Tekelija scholarship to study in Budapest. There at the Tekelianum (a Serbian educational institution) he studied at the University of Budapest, where he obtained his doctor's degree in mathematics in 1887. After graduation, he aimed to bring these subjects into general teaching practice, and at the same time initiated a wide ranging reform of teacher education in Serbia. That same year he was appointed professor at the Grande école in Belgrade (which in 1905 became the University of Belgrade).
He lived in Belgrade until his death in 1947, active as university professor up until Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1941. Before the turn of the century he had published two voluminous university textbooks—900-page "Analytical Geometry" (1896), and "Theory of Determinants" (1899) on Linear algebra. Both works may be considered as capital works in mathematics in Serbia. Academician Radivoj Kašanin once wrote:
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