Enrico Bompiani (12 February 1889 – 22 September 1975) was an Italian mathematician, specializing in differential geometry."Bompiani, Enrico", Dizionario biografico Treccani
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Education and career

Bompiani received his Ph.D. (laurea) in 1910 under

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at the

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with thesis ''Spazio rigato a quattro dimensioni e spazio cerchiato ordinario''. Until 1913 he remained in Rome as an assistant to

and then, from 16 October 1913 to 30 October 1915, he was at the

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as an assistant to Francesco Gerbaldi. In December 1915 he became a docent lecturing on analytic geometry at the Sapienza University of Rome, where in 1922 he became an assistant professor (''professore incaricato''). In 1922 he won a competition for a professorial chair at the

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, where he taught in 1922–1923. From 1923 to 1926 he was a professor at the

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.Bibliografia, Roma, mat.uniroma3.it
(over 300 publications listed) Near the end of 1926 he returned to Rome to become a professor for descriptive geometry (and then differential geometry and higher mathematical analysis) at the Sapienza University of Rome, remaining in this capacity until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1964. From 1939 to 1959 he was the director of the Mathematical Institute of the University of the Rome. He was on the editorial board of ''Rendiconti di Matematica e delle sue applicazioni'' from 1940 to 1959. Bompiani was an

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in 1912 at Cambridge (England)Bompiani, Enrico
"Recenti progressi nella geometria proiettiva differenziali degli iperspazi."
In Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Mathematicians: Cambridge, 22–28 August 1912 and in 1928 at Bologna. He was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and the University of Pittsburgh. Bompiani wrote textbooks on projective, analytic, descriptive, and non-Euclidean geometry.

Honors and awards

Bompiani won in 1923 the mathematics prize of the Fondazione Besso and in 1926 the gold medal of the Società italiana delle scienze detta dei XL. In 1935 he became a corresponding member of the

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, in 1938 he won the royal prize (premio reale) of the Accademia, and in 1942 he became a full member of the Accademia. He was also a member of the academies of Bologna, Turin, Brussels, and Liège, the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He received honorary doctorates from Groningen, Bologna, and Jassy. He was from 1941 to 1964 on the scientific advisory board of Rome's Istituto nazionale di alta matematica and from 1926 to 1959 on the committee for physics and mathematics of the

Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche The National Research Council (Italian: ''Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR'') is the largest research council in Italy. As a public organisation, its remit is to support scientific and technological research. Its headquarters are in Rome. ...

. From 1951 to 1954 he was the secretary of the

International Mathematical Union The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world. It is a member of the International Science Council (ISC) and supports ...

. From 1949 to 1952 he was the president of the Unione matematica italiana.

Sources

* Ciliberto, Ciro; Del Colombo, Emma Sallent
''Enrico Bompiani: the years in Bologna.''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bompiani, Enrico 1889 births 1975 deaths 20th-century Italian mathematicians Sapienza University of Rome alumni Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome Academic staff of the University of Milan National Research Council (Italy) people Presidents of the Italian Mathematical Union Academic staff of the University of Bologna