| Miodrag S. Petković | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 10, 1948 Malča, Serbia |
| Residence | Serbia |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Alma mater | University of Nis |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Known for | Interval mathematics, Polynomial roots, Recreational mathematics |
Miodrag S. Petković (born 10 February 1948 in Malča, Serbia in the former Yugoslavia) is a mathematician and computer scientist. He graduated in Computer Science in 1972 and gained his PhD in Mathematics (1980) in the area of Interval analysis. In 1991 he became a full professor of mathematics at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš in Serbia.
Professor Petković is a leading expert in the theory of iterative processes for solving nonlinear equations and interval mathematics. He wrote over 230 academic papers (120 in Thomson's SCI journals) and twenty books, including three monographs Iterative Methods for Simultaneous Inclusion of Polynomial Zeros, Springer-Verlag 1989, Complex Interval Arithmetic and Its Applications, Wiley-VCH 1998 and Point Estimation of Root Finding Methods, Springer-Verlag 2008.
He was visiting professor at the University of Oldenburg (Germany, 1989) and at the Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg (France, 1992) and a scientific researcher at the universities of Freiburg, Oldenburg, Berlin, New York, London, Sofia, Kiel, Tsukuba and Vienna. Professor Petković is an Associate Editor in Journal and Computational and Applied Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and Computation and a member of Editorial Board of Reliable Computing, Journal of Applied Mathematics, Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics. He was the mentor of 11 doctoral dissertations and master theses.
Professor Petković is also a math popularizer; he authored a number of articles and books on recreational mathematics and chess. His books Mathematics and Chess, Dover Publications, 1997 and Famous Puzzles of Great Mathematicians, American Mathematical Society, 2009 are curious collections which combine mathematics, puzzles and chess. As a chess composer, he published about 100 original chess problems.
Professor Petković is a member of Serbian Scientific Society, New York Academy of Science, American Mathematical Society, GAMM, and a member of Serbian National Council of Science. He is married and has two sons. His wife Ljiljana is also a professor of Mathematics at the University of Niš.
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