Education
He began his schooling in Majske Poljane, continued his education in Glina, and graduated from high school in Križevci.
He began his schooling in Majske Poljane, continued his education in Glina, and graduated from high school in Križevci.
Throughout his life, Kurepa published over 700 articles, books, papers, and reviews and over 1,000 scientific reviews. Born in Majske Poljane, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, Kurepa was the youngest of Rade and Andelija Kurepa"s fourteen children. He received a diploma in theoretical mathematics and physics from the University of Zagreb in 1931, and began work as an assistant in the teaching of mathematics the same year.
Kurepa then went to the Collège de France and the University of Paris, where he received his doctoral diploma in 1935.
His advisor was French mathematician Maurice René Fréchet, and his thesis was titled Ensembles ordonnés et ramifiéson Kurepa continued to receive post-doctoral education at Warsaw University in Poland and the University of Paris.
He became an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb in 1937, associate professor the next year, and assumed the position of full professor in 1948. In 1965, Kurepa shifted to the University of Belgrade, where he focused on the fields of logic and set theory mathematics.
Kurepa influenced set theory mathematics in several ways, including lending his name to the Kurepa tree.
Professor Kurepa was not only the professional mathematician and teacher, but he was a scientist, philosopher, and humanist as well, in the true sense of these words. Generally speaking, he was the catalyzer, the initiator, and the bearer of mathematical science.
After the end of World World War II and the formation of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, he traveled to five universities in the United States: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, the branch of the University of California at Berkeley and the branch at Los Angeles, California the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and Columbia University in New York City, New New York
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.