Professor Miloš Zlámal – his life and work

Abstract

A brief biography of Professor Miloš Zlámal is presented. Then we focus on the mathematical problems he dealt with. In the first period there were various properties of analytical solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations. His main results are in the theory of the finite element method as the minimum angle condition guaranteeing convergence, curved finite elements, superconvergence, the so-called mortar finite elements and semiconductor equations.