Svetozar Kurepa

Svetozar Kurepa (25 May 1929 – 2 February 2010) was a Yugoslavian and Croatian Serb mathematician whose main contributions were in the areas of functional analysis and operator theory. Kurepa published over 70 articles, 16 books, and numerous scientific reviews. He taught at the University of Zagreb, where he also served as the Dean of the College of Sciences. He taught in North America at the University of Maryland, at Georgetown University, and at the University of Waterloo. In Europe he worked at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark and the University of Milan. Provided by Wikipedia