11 Facts About Jovan Karamata

Jovan Karamata was a Serbian mathematician and university professor.

Jovan Karamata is remembered for contributions to analysis, in particular, the Tauberian theory and the theory of slowly varying functions.

Jovan Karamata was born in Zagreb on February 1,1902, into a family descended from merchants based in the city of Zemun, which was then in Austria-Hungary, and now in Serbia.

In 1914, he finished most of his primary school in Zemun but because of constant warfare on the borderlands, Jovan Karamata's father sent him, together with his brothers and his sister, to Switzerland for their own safety.

Jovan Karamata was one of the founders of the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1946.

Jovan Karamata was member of the Swiss, French and German mathematical societies, the French Association for the Development of Science, and the primary editor of the journal L'Enseignement Mathematique in Geneva.

Jovan Karamata published 122 scientific papers, 15 monographs and text-books as well as 7 professional-pedagogical papers.

Jovan Karamata is best known for his work on mathematical analysis.

Jovan Karamata introduced the notion of regularly varying function, and discovered a new class of theorems of Tauberian type, today known as Karamata's tauberian theorems.

Jovan Karamata worked on Mercer's theorems, Frullani integral, and other topics in analysis.

Jovan Karamata is the developer and co-developer of dozens of mathematical theorems and has had a lasting influence in 20th-century mathematics.