Alessandro Figà Talamanca
Alessandro Figà Talamanca (born May 25, 1938 in Rome ) is an Italian mathematician who deals with analysis .
Figà Talamanca studied in Rome and received her doctorate ( Multipliers of P-integrable functions ) under Philip C. Curtis at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1964 and was then briefly acting assistant professor there. From 1964 to 1966 he was Moore Instructor at MIT, 1966 to 1968 Assistant Professor (Professore Incaricato) in Genoa, 1968/69 Lecturer at Berkeley and 1969/70 at Yale. From 1970 he taught as full professor of analysis at Italian universities, from 1977 in Genoa and most recently at the University of Rome La Sapienza , where he headed the mathematics faculty Guido Castelnuovo from 2007 to 2009 and retired in 2009.
He translated Tom M. Apostol's textbook on analysis into Italian. He was active in the reform of Italian universities (for which he also wrote articles in daily newspapers such as La Repubblica) and especially the mathematics curriculum there, where he worked with his friend Carlo Pucci . From 1995 to 2003 he succeeded Pucci as director of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi in Rome. From 1999 to 2004 he was a member of the Italian Consiglio Universitario Nazionale. He was head of the Scuola Matematica Interuniversitaria and from 1999 to 2004 a member of the Comitato Nazionale per la Valutazione del Sistema Universitario (CNVSU).
He was visiting professor at various universities in the USA (University of Maryland 1973/74, 1979 and 1986, Washington University in St. Louis 1983) and Australia (University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1989 and 1997).
Figà Talamanca is concerned with harmonic analysis, for example convolution in spaces, lacunar and random Fourier series on compact groups, harmonic analysis on free groups and homogeneous trees, diffusion processes on ultrametric spaces and stable and infinitesimally divisible random variables on local bodies.
He was Vice President of the European Mathematical Society and President of the Unione Matematica Italiana .
He also spoke out against the impact factor as an evaluation of research.
Fonts
- with John Price: Applications of random Fourier series over compact groups to Fourier multipliers. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, Volume 43, 1972, pp. 531-541
- with Claudio Nebbia: Harmonic analysis and representation theory for groups acting on homogeneous trees, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alessandro Figà Talamanca in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Curriculum Vitae, University of Rome
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Talamanca, Alessandro Figà |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |