Ernesto Padova (17 February 1845 – 9 March 1896) was an Italian
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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born in
Livorno.
Biography
He graduated at the
University of Pisa
The University of Pisa ( it, Università di Pisa, UniPi), officially founded in 1343, is one of the oldest universities in Europe.
History
The Origins
The University of Pisa was officially founded in 1343, although various scholars place ...
in 1866 but he was also a student of the Scuola Normale of Pisa. He first taught in a high school in
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
and in 1872, having been put forward by
Enrico Betti
Enrico Betti Glaoui (21 October 1823 – 11 August 1892) was an Italian mathematician, now remembered mostly for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers. He worked also on the theory of equations, giv ...
, he was appointed professor of
rational mechanics at the University of Pisa. From there he moved on to
Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...
, where he remained until his premature death.
He has been author of about fifty works in the fields of mathematical analysis,
analytical mechanics and mathematical-physics (elasticity and electromagnetism). Regards to analytical mechanics Padova has been one of the first to study matters concerning movement stability. In this
field
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, among his students was
Tullio Levi-Civita
Tullio Levi-Civita, (, ; 29 March 1873 – 29 December 1941) was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, but who also made signific ...
.
In 1891 he also became a member of the
Accademia dei Lincei.
Notes
External links
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An Italian short biography of Ernesto Padovain ''Edizione Nazionale Mathematica Italiana'' online.
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1845 births
1896 deaths
Mathematical physicists
19th-century Italian mathematicians
University of Pisa
University of Padua