Vito Volterra | |
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| Born | 3 May 1860 Ancona, Papal States |
| Died | 11 October 1940 (aged 80) Rome, Kingdom of Italy |
| Alma mater | University of Pisa Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
| Known for | Volterra integral equation Volterra operator Lotka–Volterra equations Volterra lattice |
| Awards | ForMemRS[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Pisa University of Turin Sapienza University of Rome |
| Doctoral advisor | Enrico Betti |
| Doctoral students | Paul Lévy Joseph Pérès Cornelia Fabri |
Vito Volterra KBE FRS(For) HFRSE (/voʊlˈtɛrə/, Italian: [ˈviːto volˈtɛrra]; 3 May 1860 – 11 October 1940) was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations,[2][3] being one of the founders of functional analysis.[4]
- ^ Whittaker, E. T. (1941). "Vito Volterra. 1860-1940". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (10): 690–729. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0029.
- ^ Borsellino, A. [in Italian] (1980). "Vito Volterra and Contemporary Mathematical Biology". In Barigozzi, Claudio (ed.). Vito Volterra Symposium on Mathematical Models in Biology. New York: Springer. pp. 410–417. ISBN 0-387-10279-5.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Vito Volterra", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ According to Accardi (1992, p. 150). Precisely, Accardi's analysis of the contribution of Volterra to the founding of functional analysis is aimed to show that he was the sole founder of the field, and to stimulate the readers to read Volterra's original papers.