Josip Pečarić

Josip Pečarić
Josip Pečarić with his wife, Ankica Pečarić
Born	(1948-09-03) 3 September 1948 (age 69)
Nationality	Croatian
Citizenship	Croatia
Alma mater	University of Belgrade
Known for	Theory of inequality
Awards	Annual State Award for Sciences (1997), Order of Danica Hrvatska (1999)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	University of Zagreb Abdus Salam School of Mathematics
Doctoral advisor	P. M. Vasić

Josip Pečarić (born 3 September 1948) is a Croatian Academician, mathematician and the professor of mathematics at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He has written and co-authored over 1100 articles on mathematics in journals, books, and conference proceedings.

Josip Pečarić was born in Kotor, Montenegro on 3 September 1948 where he attended elementary and high school. He studied at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and completed his master's degree in electrical engineering under the supervision of mathematics professor, Dobrilo Tošić, who inspired him to dedicate himself to mathematics.

He is married to Ankica Pečarić.

Pečarić is an expert in the theory of inequality. He is considered "...a great name in the theory of inequality". Pečarić is the editor-in-chief and founder of the international journal, Mathematical Inequalities and Applications. He is an editor for several international journals and publishing houses. In addition to his scientific work, he is known as a journalist. Pečarić has authored numerous newspaper articles and books dealing with journalistic and historical topics.

Pečarić was honored with the Annual State Award for Sciences (1997), and the Order of Danica Hrvatska (1999).

Up to date he authored or coauthored 1143 books and articles out of which 597 are only once or not cited at all. According to this interview Pečarić attempted to get an assistant professor position in mathematics three times unsuccessfully: twice at Belgrade University and once at Rijeka University, Rijeka Croatia - all in 1980-ies.