Background
Marko Petkovsek was born on April 9, 1955 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Marko Petkovsek was born on April 9, 1955 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Marko Petkovsek received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science from the University of Ljubljana. He also got a Doctor of Philosophy from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1991.
Marko Petkovsek began his career in 1976 at Institute Jozef Stefan as a mathematician and worked there for two years. In 1980, he was appointed as an associate professor of mathematics and researcher at Institute of Mathematics, Physics, and Mechanics at the University of Ljubljana. Seven years later, he again became a mathematician at Institute Jozef Stefan. For a year, Marko served at Wolfram Research Inc. as a mathematician. He also worked at Carnegie-Mellon University. Currently, Petkovsek is a professor of discrete and computational mathematics at the University of Ljubljana.
Together with Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger Marko wrote the book A = B. He contributed to scientific journals, including International Journal of Man-Machine Studies and American Mathematical Monthly. Petkovsek is also a developer of Petkovsek's algorithm, a computer algebra algorithm that computes a basis of hypergeometric terms solution of its input linear recurrence equation with polynomial coefficients.
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1996Marko Petkovsek is married and has three children.
