VELIMIR SOTIROVIĆ – PROMINENT PROFESSOR AND SCIENTIST

Abstract

It is a pleasant duty to talk about the work and creativity of Prof. Velimir Sotirović, Ph.D., about his life, work and creativity so far. I emphasize, about work and creativity, starting from the fact that work and creativity are not identical categories, although they are in an inter-action relationship. Creativity appears as a broader concept that includes the “production” of new knowledge. Creativity, therefore, is not an interpretation of the already reached level of scientific knowledge, but a creative- qualitative step further, which results in the discovery of new scientific knowledge. Why am I saying this? Simply in order to emphasize the fact that Professor Sotirović, in his life so far, not only worked, but also created, both materially and spiritually. His creations, then, are not only material, such as money, residential and commercial space, etc., but primarily spiritual creations, and these are books. With a feeling of admiration, I can say that Professor Sotirović wrote and published 588 books, in the field he deals with, namely mathematics and informatics, mostly as an independent author, and to a much lesser extent as a co-author. Precisely for these spiritual creations, which represent new, additional “grains” in the huge mosaic of scientific knowledge, Professor Sotirović belongs to a small group of the most famous Serbian, but also former Yugoslav and European mathematicians and computer scientists.