Svetozar Kurepa (25 May 1929 – 2 February 2010) was a Yugoslavian and Croatian mathematician whose main contributions were in the areas of functional analysis and operator theory.
Rising rapidly from Assistant to Full Professor, he taught at the University of Zagreb, with some notable absences, for the remainder of his career.
[3] Academic Nikola Hajdin claimed that Svetozar Kurepa was pressured to convert to Greek Catholic Church.
He won the Prize of the City of Zagreb for Scientific, Teaching, and Professional Activities in 1968.
The 1970–71 academic year was spent teaching at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and he briefly visited there again in 1986.
[3] In 1982, Kurepa spent a small part of the year at the University of Milan (the Federigo Enriques Institute).
Among his most significant books are Konačno dimenzionalni vektori, prostori i primjene (1967), and Funkcionalna analiza: Elementi teorije operatora (1980).