ENLIGHTENER AND MAN INSTITUTION

Abstract

Academic prof. Dr. Velimir Sotirovic was born on September 27, 1936 in the village of Klenike, Municipality of Bujanovac, Republic of Serbia. He finished primary school in 1950 in Karavukovo. He finished the five-year Teacher's School in 1955 with great success in Vranje and Sombor. Academician prof. After graduating from the teacher's school, Dr. Velimir Sotirovic passed the teacher's professional exam in Novi Sad in 1955.From the first day of teaching in Karavukovo, the municipality of Odzaci has successfully studied history at the Higher Pedagogical School in Novi Sad. However, his love for mathematics transferred him to study mathematics and physics, also at the Higher Pedagogical School in Novi Sad. He finished them as the first and best in the generation in 1960, and in 1967 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, he acquired the title - Professor of Mathematics. In 1984, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Technology in Zrenjanin, entitled Realization of informative contents in the teaching of mathematics in primary and general secondary education, and acquired the title of Doctor of Pedagogical and Technical Sciences.

At the Lomonosov University in Moscow, he specialized in 1967/68 and during that period he was a guest in the "Sunny City" in the hinterland of Moscow (a city of intellectual and scientific incubator) where the smartest people of the then USSR were educated and worked. He also visited the Technical University of Munich (Germany) as a research associate and researcher for one school year. In 1985, Academician Dr. Velimir Sotirović was elected assistant professor, and in 1990 associate professor and full professor in 1991 at the University of Novi Sad. For two years he was vice-rector as well as acting rector of the University of Novi Sad. The duty of the Minister of Scientific and Technological Development in AP Vojvodina performed one election mandate very successfully. After the October 5 changes in the Republic of Serbia in 2000, he was re-elected Dean of the Technical Faculty "Mihajlo Pupin" in Zrenjanin. Performing this function for a long period, he managed to make a relatively provincial higher education institution a professional, educational and scientific brand recognizable in the region and beyond. In the field of mathematics, informatics and methodological scientific-theoretical field, he has so far published more than 588 books, research, scientific and professional papers, monographs and textbooks for all levels of education; from preschool to doctoral studies