Enea Bortolotti (28 September 1896 – 22 June 1942) was an Italian

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born in

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Biography

He graduated in

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in 1920 at the Universities of Pisa, where he was a student of

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. He taught analytic and

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at the Universities of Cagliari and

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. He was mainly involved in

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: it was a specialist in the theory of linear connections.

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External links

An Italian short biography of Enea Bortolotti
in ''MATEpristem'' online. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bortolotti, Enea 1896 births 1942 deaths Differential geometers 20th-century Italian mathematicians University of Pisa alumni