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 VolterraKBE FRS(For) HFRSE (/voʊlˈtɛrə/, Italian:[ˈviːtovolˈtɛrra]; 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.
equations were introduced by VitoVolterra and then studied by Traian Lalescu in his 1908 thesis, Sur les équations de Volterra, written under the direction...
of calculus. The product integral was developed by the mathematician VitoVolterra in 1887 to solve systems of linear differential equations. The classical...
mathematician VitoVolterra, in his work dating from 1887. Norbert Wiener became interested in this theory in the 1920s due to his contact with Volterra's student...
area of functional analysis and operator theory, the Volterra operator, named after VitoVolterra, is a bounded linear operator on the space L2[0,1] of...
been introduced in 1887 by the Italian mathematician and physicist VitoVolterra. The theory of nonlinear functionals was continued by students of Hadamard...
composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (Jesi); mathematician and physicist VitoVolterra (Ancona); footballer Roberto Mancini (Jesi); Pope Leo XII (Genga); Pope...
materials arises from the pioneering articles of Ludwig Boltzmann and VitoVolterra, in which they sought an extension of the concept of an elastic material...
Moser (1975) and is named after VitoVolterra. The Volterra lattice is a special case of the generalized Lotka–Volterra equation describing predator–prey...
[citation needed] Volterra is named for VitoVolterra, an Italian mathematician and physicist, who is best known as the father of the Volterra series. "Maxim...
algebraic topology. Unifying the work on function spaces of Georg Cantor, VitoVolterra, Cesare Arzelà, Jacques Hadamard, Giulio Ascoli and others, Maurice...
describing the elastic fields of the defects was originally developed by VitoVolterra in 1907. In 1934, Egon Orowan, Michael Polanyi and G. I. Taylor, proposed...
Suslov [ru] Matvej Tichomandrickij [ru] F. J. Vaes Giuseppe Veronese VitoVolterra Helge von Koch Jules Andrade Léon Autonne Anton Börsch Émile Borel Pierre...
ecological models is the predator-prey model of Alfred J. Lotka (1925) and VitoVolterra (1926). This model takes the form of a pair of ordinary differential...
converse is not true. In fact, any metrizable Volterra space is Baire. The name refers to a paper of VitoVolterra in which he uses the fact that (in modern...
earlier work on the generalization of the theorems of vector calculus by VitoVolterra, Édouard Goursat, and Henri Poincaré. This modern form of Stokes' theorem...
based in Italy. It was founded on December 7, 1922, by Luigi Bianchi, VitoVolterra, and most notably, Salvatore Pincherle, who became the Union's first...
case of composition products considered by the Italian mathematician VitoVolterra in 1913. When a function gT is periodic, with period T, then for functions...
Mathematician VitoVolterra equated the relationship between two species independent from Lotka. Together, Lotka and Volterra formed the Lotka–Volterra model...
Edoardo Volterra (1904–1984) was an Italian scholar of Roman law. Son of the distinguished Italian mathematician VitoVolterra, Edoardo Volterra held a...
employment in Italy, Pius XI, on his own initiative, admitted professor VitoVolterra, a famous Italian Jewish mathematician, into the Pontifical Academy...
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