On Thursday, 6th March 2014 at International University of Sarajevo (IUS) Emeritus Professor Harry Miller, from the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Science at IUS, held a lecture called “My life- 75 and counting”.
Prof. Dr. Harry Miller used this lecture as an opportunity to motivate students and encourage them in their further progress.
Prof. Dr. Miller is born in 1939 in Chicago, close by University of Chicago. He finished major in mathematics at University of Illinois.
Since family of his late wife, Prof. Naza Tanović, was very strongly connected to Sarajevo, after they finished the PhD studies in United States both of them decided to move to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Their goal was to give the best possible education to students at Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics in Sarajevo in order to prepare those young people to continue their education and to get PhD degree in United States. And they succeeded in that intent.
Prof. Dr. Miller and his wife Naza published a collection of mathematical papers and he worked as editor in chief of Sarajevo mathematical journal.
Dr. Miller through his career taught at 12 universities, and some of them are well-known Bilkent University, Boğaziçi University and University of Michigan. He has published 90 papers in 11 different countries and even in 21 mathematical journals.
Talking to the IUS studentabout his life experience, family and career, professor Miller encourages them to educate themselves and take initiative.
“You cannot just sit and wait for an offer to work as a civil servant. Take things into your own hands. Forget the myths and stupid things. Think about your future, how you build your country. And do it in the way as great poet Mak Dizdar did it in his poetry.”
Quoting the famous statement of President Kennedy´s brother Prof. Miller finished his vivid and impressive presentation, “Many small drops can make a big wave.”
