Atanasije Nikolić was a Serbian teacher and writer, the first mathematics professor and rector at the Lyceum in Kragujevac. He wrote the first undergraduate textbooks in mathematics, algebra, geometry, trigonometry in the Serbian language. He was also employed by the Serbian Ministry of Construction and Public Works as an architect in the then capital city of Kragujevac and later Belgrade.
- Occupation
- mathematician, writer
- Citizenship
- Serbia
- Born
- January 18, 1803
- Died
- June 28, 1882