Review article

Academician Sibe Mardešić, mathematician and professor (1927–2016)

Darko Veljan orcid.org/0000-0001-5904-6546 ; Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Bijenička cesta 30, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia *

* Corresponding author.

Abstract

Academician Sibe Mardešić was a world-known
Croatian mathematician with more than 200 scientific
and professional papers and other works, as well
as 20 books, monographs and textbooks mostly from
the area of algebraic and general topology and mathematical
analysis. He worked at the Department of
Mathematics within the Faculty of Sciences (PMF),
University of Zagreb. He taught many undergraduate
courses such as mathematical analysis, topology
and algebra. He was one of the founders of the first
graduate study of mathematics in this part of Europe
(1960) and the first lecturer at that graduate school
in Zagreb who led the graduate seminar. He cofounded
the Department of Mathematics at the University
of Split. He was a guest professor or visiting
professor, invited to many well-known universities
around the world, from the USA, Mexico, around Europe, Japan to Russia, Ukraine and Turkey. They
saw him as one of the founders and world experts in
shape theory (global homotopy theory). For years
he was the editor-in-chief of Glasnik matematički
and a member of the editorial board of a number of
domestic and foreign journals. He published almost
300 reviews in the American journal Mathematical
Reviews and almost 180 in the similar German Zentralblatt.
He founded and participated in a number
of international conferences, for instance, the one
in Dubrovnik. He was the dean and the vice-dean of
the faculty, president of the Croatian Mathematical
Society (HMD) and a fellow of the American Mathematical
Society (AMS). He was a full member of
the Croatian Academy of Science and Art (HAZU,
formerly JAZU) and of the European Academy. He
received the Ruđer Bošković award, the award of the
City of Zagreb and the lifetime achievement award.
Ten days after his death the impressive mathematical,
culturological-historical and autobiographical book
of almost 500 pages appeared which he wrote for
many years.

Keywords

Sibe Mardešić; homology theory; professor of mathematics; shape theory; topology

Hrčak ID:

345034

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/345034

Publication date:

23.11.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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