Стохастичка грана математичког генеаолошког стабла Михаила Петровића Аласа

Abstract

Academician Mihailo Petrovic Alas is a great Serbian mathematician and founder of the Serbian School of Mathematics who played a crucial rule in the development of the mathematical education and research, not only in Serbia, but in its neighborhood. The outstanding creativity, inventivity and universality were the main characteristics of the scientific work of Mihailo Petrovic Alas. Although he was not directly interested in stochastics, he indirectly influenced it through his doctorands, first of all through Dragoljub Markovic, Tadija Pejovic and Jovan Karamata, and also through younger scientists who came after them, in the development of Probability and Statistics in the university centers in Serbia. The purpose of this paper is to review the stochastic genealogical branch of Mihailo Petrovic Alas, first of all through the branches of Tadija Pejovic and Jovan Karamata, as well as to present the scientific development of Probability and Statistics in Serbia through received doctoral theses.