Tatomir P. Anđelić (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...

Татомир П. Анђелић ) was a

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, academic and an expert in

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Biography

Tatomir P. Anđelić was born on November 11, 1903 in a small village Bukovica, near Mrcajevci between towns of

Čačak Čačak ( sr-Cyrl, Чачак, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Moravica District in central Serbia. It is located in the West Morava Valley within the geographical region of Šumadija. , the city proper has 73,331 inhabitants, wh ...

and

Kraljevo Kraljevo ( sr-cyr, Краљево, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Raška District in central Serbia. It is situated on the confluence of West Morava and Ibar, in the geographical region of Šumadija, between the mountains of ...

in the family of six children. His mother Dmitra was illiterate, but his father Pavle, a landowner with rudimentary schooling, was a people's democratic delegate. He finished elementary school in town of Mrčajevci in 1914, and resumed his education after the

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in 1919. In one year, he successfully passed six grades of then gymnasium, and his senior grade passed successfully in town of

in 1922. On his own accord he studied mathematics,

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and

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at the

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, from 1922 until 1927. He spent the 1927–1928 academic year at the

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in the Department of Philosophy. As a scientist he was most influenced by

Mihailo Petrović Mihailo ( sr-cyr, Михаило) or Mihajlo () is a Serbian masculine given name, a variant of the Hebrew name '' Michael''. Common as a given name among Serbs, it is an uncommon surname. It may refer to: * Mihailo Vojislavljević (fl. 1050� ...

(1868-1943),

Milutin Milanković Milutin Milanković (sometimes anglicised as Milankovitch; sr-Cyrl, Милутин Миланковић ; 28 May 1879 – 12 December 1958) was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer and popularizer of ...

(1879-1958) and Anton Bilimović (1879-1970). From October 1928 until September 1945 he taught mathematics in high school, mostly in the Second Belgrade's Gymnasium and First Belgrade Gymnasium. At the same time, he was employed by the

part-time as teacher's assistant at the department of

in the class of Professor Bilimović. A school in Mrčajevci is named after him.

References

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