Vito Volterra

Vito Volterra
Born(1860-05-03)3 May 1860
Ancona, Papal States
Died11 October 1940(1940-10-11) (aged 80)
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Alma materUniversity of Pisa
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Known forVolterra integral equation
Volterra operator
Lotka–Volterra equations
Volterra lattice
AwardsForMemRS[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Pisa
University of Turin
Sapienza University of Rome
Doctoral advisorEnrico Betti
Doctoral studentsPaul Lévy
Joseph Pérès
Cornelia Fabri

Vito Volterra KBE FRS(For) HFRSE (/vlˈtɛrə/, 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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Vito Volterra", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  4. ^ 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.