Vatroslav Bertić

Vatroslav Bertić (7 June 1818 – 1901) was a Croatian mathematician.

Life

Bertić was born in Orehovica. His parents were Josip Jakov Bertić and noble Regina Antonija Gregoroczy (Gregurovečki). By his father's side he was of military background and by his mother's side he was connected with old Croatian nobility like Deželić and Gregurovečki family. He studied technical sciences in Budapest and was later employed by Croatian Ban Josip Jelačić in military. Bertić worked on mathematical education of Croatian people and he made a Croatian word for mathematics - oloslovlje. Bertić was married to Amalija Kaltneker with whom he had five children. He died in Hum Zabočki in 1901.

Work

In 1847 Bertić wrote a book named Samouka – pokus pervi in which he offered a rudimentary algebraic language of “thoughts and concepts” (including variables, constants, equality sign) to which the law of substitution is added,[1] which was the beginning stage of Boolean logic. Bertić made his research independent from George Boole.

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References
  1. Andrew Schumann (ed.). Logic in Central and Eastern Europe. The Social Context (PDF). Department of Philosophy and Science Methodology, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
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