| Tibor Šalát | |
| Birth Date: | 13 May 1926 |
| Birth Place: | Vajka nad Žitavou, Slovakia |
| Death Place: | Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Nationality: | Slovakian |
| Field: | Mathematician |
| Work Institution: | Comenius University in Bratislava |
| Alma Mater: | Charles University in Prague |
| Known For: | Number theory Real analysis |
Tibor Šalát (13 May 1926 –) was a Slovak mathematician, professor of mathematics, and Doctor of Mathematics who specialized in number theory and real analysis. He was the author and co-author of undergraduate and graduate textbooks in mathematics, mostly in Slovak. And most of his scholarly papers have been published in various scientific journals.
Originally from Žitava by the southern region of Slovakia, he studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Charles University in Prague, where in 1952 he defended a dissertation entitled Príspevok k teorii súčtov a nekonečných radov s reálnými členami and supervised by and Vojtěch Jarník.[1] In 1952 he went to work at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava, where he became an assistant professor in 1962. He was appointed to a full professorship position in 1972. And in 1974, he earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the same institution.[2]
He specialized in Cantor's expansions, uniform distribution, statistical convergence, summation methods and theory of numbers.[2]
He wrote several undergraduate and graduate textbooks.