Mathematician:Samuel Giuseppe Vito Volterra
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Mathematician
Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
One of the founders of functional analysis.
Nationality
Italian
History
- Born: 3 May 1860 in Ancona, Papal States (now Italy)
- Died: 11 October 1940 in Rome, Italy
Theorems and Definitions
- Smith-Volterra-Cantor Set (with Henry John Stephen Smith and Georg Cantor)
- Volterra's Function
- Lotka-Volterra Equation (with Alfred James Lotka)
Results named for Samuel Giuseppe Vito Volterra can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Samuel Giuseppe Vito Volterra can be found here.
Publications
- 1910: Leçons sur les Fonctions de Lignes
- 1912: The Theory of Permutable Functions
- 1913: Leçons sur les Équations Intégrales et les Équations Intégro-Différentielles
- 1926: Variazioni e Fluttuazioni del Numero d'Individui in Specie Animali Conviventi
- 1926: Fluctuations in the Abundance of a Species Considered Mathematically
- 1930: Theory of functionals and of integral and integro-differential equations
- 1931: Leçons sur la théorie mathématique de la lutte pour la vie
Also known as
Usually known as Vito Volterra.
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Samuel Giuseppe Vito Volterra": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Volterra's integral equations
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Volterra's integral equations