Đuro Kurepa was a Yugoslav and Serbian mathematician, university professor and academic, born on 16 August 1907 in Majske Poljane in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, to a Serb family. Throughout his life he published over 700 articles, books, papers and reviews and over 1,000 scientific reviews, and he lectured at universities across Europe and in Canada, Cuba, Iraq, Israel and the United States. He received a diploma in theoretical mathematics and physics from the University of Zagreb in 1931 and his doctoral diploma from the University of Paris in 1935, with the French mathematician Maurice René Fréchet as his advisor and a thesis titled Ensembles ordonnés et ramifiés. He died on 2 November 1993.
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his construction was described by Kurepa (1935)
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