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First Serbian works on Theory ofRelativity
Ž. Mijajlovic, N. Pejovic, V. Radovic
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Serbia
May 16, 2018
Introduction
Mihailo Petrovic
Sima Markovic
MilutinMilankovic
Introduction
Theory of relativity in 1905Michelson, Lorentz and Poincaré two decades beforeAlbert EinsteinSerbian works?
Mihailo PetrovicSima MarkovicMIlutin Milankovic
Ž. Mijajlovic, N. Pejovic, V. Radovic First Serbian works on Theory of Relativity May 16, 2018 2/12
Introduction
Mihailo Petrovic
Sima Markovic
MilutinMilankovic
Mihailo Petrovic(1868-1943)
Influential mathematician and a colorful character of thepublic life of Belgrade1894 - PhD on differential equations ( supervisors:Charles Hermite and Charles Émile Picard)Full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences at ageof 32Versatile personality - inventor, writer, fishermen,philosopher, musician, cryptographer ...
Ž. Mijajlovic, N. Pejovic, V. Radovic First Serbian works on Theory of Relativity May 16, 2018 3/12
Introduction
Mihailo Petrovic
Sima Markovic
MilutinMilankovic
Mihailo Petrovic(1868-1943)
Ž. Mijajlovic, N. Pejovic, V. Radovic First Serbian works on Theory of Relativity May 16, 2018 4/12
Introduction
Mihailo Petrovic
Sima Markovic
MilutinMilankovic
Mihailo PetrovicTheory of relativity
1921 - "Theory of relativity", 21p in Serbian literarymessenger
General audience1927 - "The physical constants in the relativity theory"and 1933 - "Physical etalons for time measuring"
Measurement of time and physical constants
Ž. Mijajlovic, N. Pejovic, V. Radovic First Serbian works on Theory of Relativity May 16, 2018 5/12
Introduction
Mihailo Petrovic
Sima Markovic
MilutinMilankovic
Mihailo PetrovicTheory of relativity
Ž. Mijajlovic, N. Pejovic, V. Radovic First Serbian works on Theory of Relativity May 16, 2018 6/12
Introduction
Mihailo Petrovic
Sima Markovic
MilutinMilankovic
Sima Markovic(1888-1939)
Mathematician, politician and philosopherHe completed his doctoral dissertation on Riccatidifferential equation in 1913 under supervision of MihailoPetrovicFirst World War and political activismExpelled from University and moved to MoscowSentenced to death in Stalin’s purges in 1939
Ž. Mijajlovic, N. Pejovic, V. Radovic First Serbian works on Theory of Relativity May 16, 2018 7/12
Introduction
Mihailo Petrovic
Sima Markovic
MilutinMilankovic
Sima MarkovicTheory of relativity
Ž. Mijajlovic, N. Pejovic, V. Radovic First Serbian works on Theory of Relativity May 16, 2018 8/12
Introduction
Mihailo Petrovic
Sima Markovic
MilutinMilankovic
Sima MarkovicTheory of relativity
1924 - Teorija relativiteta - popularno naucna skica(Theory of relativity, a popular-scientific sketch)
General audienceHe glorifies mathematics often and compare it to thehighest men’s achievements.Part 1. Special theory of relativity, pages 6 - 45.Part 2. General theory of relativity, pages 46 -80.He discussed also relation between the general theory ofrelativity and cosmology. He explains that the universeoccupies a closed but unbounded space. As an applicationof the theory he deduced a formula of the size of theuniverse which depends only on the density ρ of the matterin the universe.
Ž. Mijajlovic, N. Pejovic, V. Radovic First Serbian works on Theory of Relativity May 16, 2018 9/12
Introduction
Mihailo Petrovic
Sima Markovic
MilutinMilankovic
Milutin Milankovic(1879-1958)
Mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist,civil engineer and popularizer of sciencePhD in Civil Engineering in Vienna "Contribution to theTheory of Pressure Curves""Canon of the Earth’s Insolation" - the climates of all theplanets of the Solar system and Milankovitch cyclesProfessor of various subjects in applied mathematics
Ž. Mijajlovic, N. Pejovic, V. Radovic First Serbian works on Theory of Relativity May 16, 2018 10/12
Introduction
Mihailo Petrovic
Sima Markovic
MilutinMilankovic
Milutin MilankovicTheory of relativity
Two papers on Michelson experimentHe discussed in this paper the validity of secondpostulate of SR
Ž. Mijajlovic, N. Pejovic, V. Radovic First Serbian works on Theory of Relativity May 16, 2018 11/12
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