22 Facts About Josip Plemelj

Josip Plemelj was a Slovene mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory.

Josip Plemelj was the first chancellor of the University of Ljubljana.

In May 1898, Josip Plemelj presented his doctoral thesis under Escherich's tutelage entitled Uber lineare homogene Differentialgleichungen mit eindeutigen periodischen Koeffizienten.

Josip Plemelj continued with his study in Berlin under the German mathematicians Frobenius and Fuchs and in Gottingen under Klein and Hilbert.

Josip Plemelj retired in 1957 after having lectured in mathematics for 40 years.

Josip Plemelj had shown his great gift for mathematics early in elementary school.

Josip Plemelj mastered the whole of the high school syllabus by the beginning of the fourth year and began to tutor students for their graduation examinations.

Josip Plemelj had great joy for a difficult constructional tasks from geometry.

Josip Plemelj started to occupy himself with mathematics in fourth and fifth class of high school.

Josip Plemelj's eyesight was so sharp he could see the planet Venus even in the daytime.

Josip Plemelj encountered integral equations while still a student at Gottingen, when the Swedish professor Erik Holmgren gave a lecture on the work of his fellow countryman Fredholm on linear integral equations of the 1st and 2nd kind.

Josip Plemelj contributed significantly to the theory of analytic functions in solving the problem of uniformization of algebraic functions, contributions on formulation of the theorem of analytic extension of designs and treatises in algebra and in number theory.

In 1912, Josip Plemelj published a very simple proof of the special case of Fermat's Last Theorem where the exponent, n, is 5.

Josip Plemelj found a formula for a sum of normal derivatives of one-layered potential in the internal or external region.

Josip Plemelj was a regular member of the SAZU since its foundation in 1938, corresponding member of the JAZU in Zagreb, Croatia since 1923, corresponding member of the SANU in Belgrade since 1930.

Josip Plemelj was first teacher of mathematics at Slovene university and 1949 became first honorary member of the ZDMFAJ.

Josip Plemelj left his villa in Bled to the DMFA, where today is his memorial room.

Josip Plemelj did not do extra preparation for lectures; he didn't have any notes.

Josip Plemelj used to say that he thought over the lecture subject on the way from his home in Gradisce to the University.

Josip Plemelj was writing formulae on the table beautifully although they were composited from Greek, Latin or Gothic letters.

Josip Plemelj had a very refined ear for languages and created a solid base for the development of Slovene mathematical terminology.

Josip Plemelj had accustomed students for a clear and logical phraseology.