Aleksandar Ivić

Aleksandar Ivić (March 6, 1949 – December 27, 2020) was a Serbian mathematician, specializing in analytic number theory. He gained an international reputation and gave lectures on the Riemann zeta function at universities around the world.

Biography Aleksandar Ivić was born in Belgrade to two renowned linguists, the academician Pavle Ivić (1924–1999) and the academician Milka Ivić (1923–2011). His paternal grandfather was the historian Aleksa Ivić (1881–1948) and his maternal great-grandfather was the poet Vojislav Ilić (1862–1894), the son of the writer and minister of justice Jovan Ilić (1824–1901).

In 1967, Aleksandar Ivić successfully participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad. He graduated in 1971 from the University of Novi Sad with a bachelor's degree in science. As a graduate student in Faculty of Sciences of the University of Belgrade, he graduated with a master's degree in 1973 and a doctorate in 1975. After working as an assistant from 1971 to 1976 at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics at the University of Novi Sad, Ivić was appointed as assistant professor at the Faculty of Mining and Geology at the University of Belgrade in the Department of Applied Mathematics. There he was an assistant professor from 1976 to 1982, an associate professor from 1982 to 1988, and a full professor from 1988 to 2014, when he retired as professor emeritus.

The bibliography of articles authored or coauthored by Ivić contains 231 titles. He was elected in 1988 a corresponding member in 1988 and in 2000 a regular member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU).

Ivić died in Belgrade.

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