Bruno Finzi

Bruno Finzi (born January 13, 1899 in Gardone Val Trompia , † September 10, 1974 in Milan ) was an Italian mathematician , engineer and physicist .

Life

Finzi received his engineering laureate in 1920 and mathematician at the University of Pavia in 1921 . In 1922 he became Umberto Cisotti's assistant at the Milan Polytechnic . In 1931 he became professor of rational mechanics at the University of Milan , but returned in 1947 to the Polytechnic as the successor to Cisotti and became director of the Mathematical Institute. From 1949 he headed the newly founded Institute for Aeronautics and in 1967 he was rector of the Polytechnic.

He dealt with various areas of mathematical physics, in particular with hydro- and aerodynamics, elasticity theory and other areas of continuum mechanics, but also electrodynamics, special and general relativity and unified field theories (following Albert Einstein and Tullio Levi-Civita ).

In 1956 he received the Feltrinelli Prize of the Accademia dei Lincei and in 1933 the Premio Kramer of the Istituto Lombardo. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei . From 1965 to 1969 he was President of the Associazone nazionale di meccanica teorica e applicata (AIMETA).

Fonts

with G. Bozza Resistenza idro ed aerodinamica , Milan 1935
Meccanica razionale , Bologna 1946
with M. Pastori: Calcolo tensoriale e applicazioni , Bologna 1949
Lezioni di aerodinamica , Milan 1953

literature

M. Pastori, obituary in Rendiconti Seminario Mat. E Fis. Milano, vol. 45, 1975, pp. 6-17

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personal data
SURNAME	Finzi, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian applied mathematician and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 13, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gardone Val Trompia
DATE OF DEATH	September 10, 1974
Place of death	Milan