Antonio Signorini
Antonio Signorini (born April 2, 1888 in Arezzo , † February 23, 1963 in Rome ) was an Italian mathematician and engineering scientist who dealt with continuum mechanics ( elasticity theory ).
Signorini studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa with a degree in mathematics in 1909. He was from 1916 professor of rational mechanics at the University of Palermo and from 1923 professor of rational mechanics and then of mathematical physics at the University of Naples and from 1938 to 1958 professor in Rome.
He dealt mathematically with the theory of elasticity and with thermoelasticity. His student Gaetano Fichera (1963) named the Signorini problem after him: one can find the elastic equilibrium figure of an inhomogeneous, anisotropic elastic body on a rigid surface (without friction), on which only gravitational forces from its own weight act. Signorini formulated the problem in 1959 as a problem with ambiguous boundary conditions. Fichera proved the existence and uniqueness of the solution and was able to present his results to Signorini before his death in 1963.
In 1920 he received the Mathematics Prize of the Accademia dei XL . He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei .
Fonts
- Opere scelte, Florence: Edizioni Cremonese 1991 (introduction and commentary by Giuseppe Grioli )
Web links
- Signorini, Antonio. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome.
Individual evidence
- ^ Antonio Signorini: Questioni di elasticità non linearizzata e semilinearizzata , Rendiconti di Matematica e delle sue applicazioni, Volume 18, 1959, pp. 95-139.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Signorini, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician and engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arezzo |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1963 |
| Place of death | Rome |