Bogdan Gavrilović

Bogdan Gavrilović (Serbian Cyrillic: Богдан Гавриловић; 1864–1947) was a Serbian mathematician, physicist, university professor and academic. 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).

Biography His family originates from Herzegovina region.

He graduated from high school in Novi Sad as a student of his generation. After high school, he went to study at the University of Budapest as a scholarship holder of the Serbian benefactor Sava Tekelija.

He founded the Mathematical Library in 1894, which was destroyed at the end of World War II. Together with Mihailo Petrović and Milutin Milanković, he is considered responsible for the introduction of modern mathematics in Serbia at the beginning of the 20th century.

Gavrilović was the founder of the "Mathematics Institute" in Belgrade (1946), president of the "Nikola Tesla Society" and the director of the "Nikola Tesla Institute".

Selected works Analitična geometrija tačke, prave, kruga i koničnih preseka I-II, 1896 Teorija determinanata, 1899