Josip Pečarić
Josip Pečarić (born 2 September 1948) is a Croatian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics in the Faculty of Textile Technology at the University of Zagreb,[1] Croatia, and is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[2] He has written and co-authored over 1,200 mathematical publications. He has also published a number of works on history and politics that have been described as comprising historical negationism or Holocaust denial.
Josip Pečarić | |
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Pečarić in 2012 | |
| Born | 2 September 1948 |
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
| Known for | Theory of inequalities |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Zagreb |
| Thesis | Jensen's and related inequalities (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | P. M. Vasić |
Education
Pečarić was born in Kotor, Montenegro (at the time part of Yugoslavia) on 2 September 1948,[2][3] where he remained to attend elementary and high school.[4] He studied at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Electrical Engineering for his undergraduate and master's degrees, which he completed respectively in 1972 and 1975.[3] The supervisor of his master's degree, mathematics professor, Dobrilo Tošić, inspired him to switch fields to mathematics.[4]
Pečarić remained at the University of Belgrade, working on his PhD in mathematics from 1975 to 1982.[5] He received it under the supervision of Petar Vasić. His dissertation was on Jensen's and related inequalities.[6] He began working at the University of Zagreb in 1987.[3]
Mathematics career
Pečarić is known for his work in the theory of inequalities.[4] He has founded several journals, all published by Element in Zagreb: he is currently Editor-in-Chief at Mathematical Inequalities and Applications[7] and at the Journal of Mathematical Inequalities,[8] and also founded Operators and Matrices.[9]
Pečarić has written and co-authored over 1,200 articles on mathematics in journals, books, and conference proceedings.[10] He has also coauthored over 20 mathematical books, including 6 that are written in English.
Political views and historical negationism
In addition to his mathematical work, Pečarić has published more than 20 books and 40 articles on history and politics.[4] This work is from a far-right point of view, and has been criticized as comprising historical negationism or Holocaust denial.[11]
For example, Pečarić has advocated for the return of the World War II-era fascist salute Za dom spremni.[12][13] This salute has been called the Croatian equivalent of the German Sieg Heil.[14] His 2017 book General Praljak reinvents the war criminal Slobodan Praljak as a humanist and war hero.[15] His books Serbian Myths about Jasenovac and The Jasenovac Lie Revealed, the latter coauthored with Stjepan Razum, argued that the Jasenovac concentration camp was a labor camp with much lower casualties than the commonly accepted figure, and that the bulk of its victims were Croats killed by Yugoslav communist authorities after the war.[16][17][11] This last prompted the Simon Wiesenthal Centre to advocate the Croatian government to ban publications denying the war crimes of the Ustaša.[11][18]
Honors and awards
Pečarić has received a number of honors and awards. He was awarded the Croatian National Science Award in 1996,[19] and received the Order of Danica Hrvatska in 1999.[20] Pečarić was appointed to full membership of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2000.[2] In 2008, a conference was held in honor of his 60th birthday and an issue (volume 2 no. 2) of the Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis was dedicated to him.[21] Another conference was held in 2014 in Pečarić's honor on the occasion of the publication of his 1000th mathematical paper.[22]
Selected bibliography
Textbooks
- Recent Advances in Geometric Inequalities, co-authored with Dragoslav Mitrinović and Veno Volenec. Dordecht : Springer Science & Business Media (1989). ISBN 978-94-015-7842-4
- Inequalities Involving Functions and Their Integrals and Derivatives, co-authored with Dragoslav Mitrinović and A.M. Fink. Dordecht : Springer; Kluwer Academic Publishers (1991). ISBN 978-94-011-3562-7
- Convex Functions, Partial Orderings, and Statistical Applications, co-authored with Frank Proschan and Y.L. Tong. Boston : Academic Press (1992). ISBN 9780080925226
- Classical and New Inequalities in Analysis, co-authored with Dragoslav Mitrinović and A.M. Fink. Dordecht : Springer Science & Business Media (1993). ISBN 978-94-017-1043-5
- Mond-Pečarić Method in Operator Inequalities, co-authored with Takayuki Furuta, Jadranka Mićić Hot and Yuki Seo. Zagreb : Element (2005). ISBN 9789531975711
- Multiplicative Inequalities of Carlson Type and Interpolation, co-authored with Leo Larsson, Lech Maligranda and Lars-Erik Persson. World Scientific Publishing Co. (2006). ISBN 978-981-4478-36-6
Journal articles
- Inequalities for Differentiable Mappings with Application to Special Means and Quadrature Formulæ, with Charles E. M. Pearce in Applied Mathematics Letters (2000). doi:10.1016/S0893-9659(99)00164-0
- Hadamard-type Inequalities for S-convex Functions, with Ugur S Kirmaci, Milica Klaričić Bakula and Mehmet Emin Özdemir in Applied Mathematics and Computation (2007). doi:10.1016/j.amc.2007.03.030
- New Means of Cauchy's Type, with Matloob Anwar in Journal of Inequalities and Applications (2008). doi:10.1155/2008/163202
Non-fiction books
- Srpski mit o Jasenovcu: Skrivanje istine o beogradskim konc-logorima. Zagreb : Croatian information centre (1998).
- Srpski mit o Jasenovcu II: O Bulajićevoj ideologijigenocida hrvatskih autora. Zagreb : Element (2000).
- Serbian myth about Jasenovac. Zagreb : Stih (2001). ISBN 9789536959006
- Književnik Mile Budak sada i ovdje [Writer Mile Budak here and now]. Zagreb : Vlastita naklada (2005). ISBN 9789539888747
- General Praljak, co-authored with Miroslav Međimorec. Zagreb : Vlastita naklada (2017). ISBN 9789537575212
- Razotkrivena jasenovačka laž [The Jasenovac Lie Revealed], co-authored with Stjepan Razum. Zagreb : Društvo za istraživanje trostrukog logora Jasenovac (2018). ISBN 9789535856511
References
- ^ . Department of Mathematics. University of Zagreb. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
- ^ a b c "Josip Pečarić, F.C.A." Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ a b c "Personal page". Faculty of Textile Technology. University of Zagreb.
- ^ a b c d Moslehian, Mohammad Sal (2008). "An interview with Josip E. Pečarić" (PDF). Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis. 2 (2): 163–170. doi:10.15352/bjma/1240336302.
- ^ . tkojetko.irb.hr. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
- ^ Josip Pečarić at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Editorial board". Mathematical Inequalities & Applications. Zagreb: Element. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ "Editorial board". Journal of Mathematical Inequalities. Zagreb: Element. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ "Editorial board". Operators and Matrices. Zagreb: Element. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ "Josip Pečarić author profile". MathSciNet. American Mathematical Society.
- ^ a b c . N1 Zagreb. 9 January 2019. Archived from the original on 9 October 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ Nielsen, Christian Axboe (20 June 2016). "Defending Hooliganism Does Croatia No Favours". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ Rudež, Tanja (27 August 2015). "Akademik Koji Zagovara 'Za Dom Spremni'" [The Academic Advocating 'For Home Ready'] (in Croatian). Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ Kristović, Ivan (22 November 2013). "Pozdrav 'Za dom spremni' ekvivalent je nacističkom 'Sieg Heil!'" ['For Home Ready' is the Equivalent of the Nazi 'Sieg Heil!']. Večernji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ Lakic, Mladen; Vladisavljevic, Anja; Rudic, Filip (19 October 2018). "State of Denial: The Books Rewriting the Bosnian War". Balkan Insight.
- ^ Cohen, Susan Sarah (2013). Antisemitism: An Annotated Bibliography Volume 17. Walter de Gruyter. p. 238. ISBN 978-3-11095-694-8.
- ^ Vladisavljevic, Anja (7 January 2019). "Book Event Questioning WWII Crimes Planned for Zagreb Church". BalkanInsight. BIRN.
- ^ Vladisavljevic, Anja (9 January 2019). "Croatia Urged to Prohibit Denial of Ustasa Crimes". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ "Državne nagrade za znanost za 1996. godinu" [National Science Awards for 1996]. Ministry of Science and Education (in Croatian). Republic of Croatia. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ "Odluka o odlikovanju Redom Danice hrvatske s likom Ruđera Boškovića". Narodne Novine (in Croatian). 27 May 1999. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ "Volume 2 Number 2". Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ Varošanec, Sanja. "A Thousand Papers of Josip Pečarić". Journal of Mathematical Inequalities. 9 (4): 961–981.
Sources
- Byford, Jovan (2011). Staro sajmište: mesto sećanja, zaborava i sporenja. Beogradski centar za ljudska prava. ISBN 978-86-7202-131-8.