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Mihailo Petrovic Alas was a Serbian mathematician, professor at the University of Belgrade, academician of the Serbian Royal Academy and Alas. He was born in 1868 in Belgrade. He completed the First Belgrade Gymnasium in a generation with many giants, about which a novel was written and a TV-film "The Hatchet of Professor Kosta Vujic" was filmed. Studies in Belgrade he ended in 1889. At Sorbonne he graduated in mathematics and physics, and in 1894 he defended his doctoral dissertation. He was a regular member of the Serbian Royal Academy when he was 31 years old. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Prague, Warsaw and Bucharest, and a member of several scientific-mathematical societies in the world.