Pavle Papić (1919, Antofagasta – 2005,

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) was a

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. Papić graduated

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from the

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where in 1953 he received his doctorate degree in mathematics under the supervision of Đuro Kurepa. From 1966 until 1968 he was a dean of Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Zagreb, from 1968 until 1974 a director of Institute of Mathematics in

. Since 1977 he was a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 1994 a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences. His interests were in

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and

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. He found necessary and sufficient conditions for metrizability and orderability of pseudometric and ultrametric spaces.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Papic, Pavle 1919 births 2005 deaths Croatian mathematicians Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb alumni Yugoslav mathematicians