Marko Petkovšek (1955 – 24 March 2023)[1] was a Slovenian mathematician working mainly in symbolic computation. He was a professor of discrete and computational mathematics at the University of Ljubljana. He is best known for Petkovšek's algorithm, and for the book that he coauthored with Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger, A = B.[2]
Education and career edit
Petkovšek was born in 1955 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.[3][4] He attended the University of Ljubljana for his bachelors and masters degrees, which he finished respectively in 1978 and 1986.[3][5] He completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Dana Scott, with a thesis titled Finding Closed-Form Solutions of Difference Equations by Symbolic Methods.[6] After his PhD, he returned to Ljubljana and a job at the University of Ljubljana.[2]
Petkovšek retired from the University of Ljubljana in 2021, and died in 2023.[2][4]
Books edit
- Petkovšek, Marko; Wilf, Herbert; Zeilberger, Doron (1996). A = B. A. K. Peters/CRC Press. ISBN 9781568810638.[7]
References edit
- ^ "Zapustil nas je prof. dr. Marko Petkovšek". DMFA Slovenije (in Slovenian).
- ^ a b c Brauer, Andrej; Klavžar, Sandi (5 June 2023). "The Passing of Marko Petkovšek". Annals of Combinatorics. 27: 455–456. doi:10.1007/s00026-023-00653-3.
- ^ a b "Predavanja" [Lectures]. Matematično Raziskovalno Srečanje (in Slovenian). 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
- ^ a b "Umrl je prof. dr. Marko Petkovšek" [Professor Marko Petkovšek has died]. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (in Slovenian). University of Ljubljana. 27 March 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
- ^ "Marko Petkovšek (COBISS profile)". COBISS. Republic of Slovenia. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
- ^ Marko Petkovšek at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Reviews of A = B:
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