page_title: Mihailo Petrović Alas
section_title: Awards and memberships
hierarchical_section_title: Mihailo Petrović Alas / Awards and memberships
caption_attribution_description: Српски / srpski: Кућа Мике Аласа - биста испред куће This is a photo of Cultural Heritage site of Serbia number СК 85
context_page_description: Mihailo Petrović Alas, was an influential Serbian mathematician and inventor. He was also a distinguished professor at Belgrade University, an academic, fisherman, writer, publicist, musician, businessman, traveler and volunteer in the Balkan Wars, the First and Second World Wars. He was a student of Henri Poincaré, Paul Painlevé, Charles Hermite and Émile Picard. Petrović contributed significantly to the study of differential equations and phenomenology, founded Engineering mathematics in Serbia, and invented one of the first prototypes of a hydraulic analog computer.
context_section_description: Member of Serbian academy of sciences and arts
  Member of Yugoslav academy
  Member of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  Member of academy, Bucharest
  Member of academy, Warsaw
  Member of academy, Krakow
  Member of various societies, Prague
  Member of various societies in Paris
  Member of various societies in Berlin
  Member of various societies in France
  Member of society of Italian mathematicians, Palermo
  Member of society of German mathematicians, Leipzig
  Member of Shevchenko Scientific Society, Lviv
  Member of scientific expedition for explorationof the South Pole
  Member of Rotary Club, Belgrade
  Order of Miloš the Great
  Order of St. Sava, 1st degree
  Order of St. Sava, 2nd degree
  Order of St. Sava, 3rd degree
  Order of the Romanian crown, 3rd degree
  Honorary brevet from London's society of mathematicians
  Honorary president of Yugoslav Alliance of students of mathematics
  Honorary doctor of science, University of Belgrade
  Dean of Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade
caption: Bust of Mika Alas
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