About Marko Petkovšek
Lived 1955 – 2023 (aged 67). Marko Petkovšek was a Slovenian and Yugoslav mathematician.
Marko Petkovšek (1955 – 24 March 2023) was a Slovenian mathematician working mainly in symbolic computation. He was a professor of discrete and computational mathematics at the University of Ljubljana. He is best known for Petkovšek's algorithm, and for the book that he coauthored with Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger, A = B.
Education and career Petkovšek was born in 1955 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Dana Scott, with a thesis titled Finding Closed-Form Solutions of Difference Equations by Symbolic Methods. After his PhD, he returned to Ljubljana and a job at the University of Ljubljana.
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Who was Marko Petkovšek?
Slovenian mathematician
When was Marko Petkovšek born?
Marko Petkovšek was born on 9 April 1955 in Ljubljana.
When did Marko Petkovšek die?
Marko Petkovšek died on 24 March 2023.
What was Marko Petkovšek's occupation?
Marko Petkovšek was a mathematician.
What nationality was Marko Petkovšek?
Marko Petkovšek was Slovenian and Yugoslav.
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