Enrico Bompiani
Enrico Bompiani (born February 12, 1889 in Rome , † September 22, 1975 ibid) was an Italian mathematician who mainly dealt with differential geometry.
Bombiani received his laureate in 1910 from Guido Castelnuovo at the University of Rome with a dissertation on projective differential geometry in four dimensions. He was an assistant at Castelnuovo until 1913 and then for two years at the University of Pavia. In 1914 he received the license to teach analytical geometry and went back to Rome, where he became an assistant professor (Professore incaricato) at the end of 1922. In the same year he won a competition for the chair at the Polytechnic in Milan and moved to Bologna a year later. In 1927 he became professor again at the University of Rome (La Sapienza), this time for descriptive geometry (later also differential geometry and higher analysis). From 1939 to 1959 he was director of the Mathematical Institute at the University of Rome. In 1964 he retired.
He was, among other things, visiting professor in Chicago (1930 to 1934), Kansas City, Pittsburgh (1959 to 1961 as Mellon Professor).
In 1923 he won the Mathematics Prize of the Fondazione Besso, in 1926 the gold medal of the Società italiana delle scienze detta dei XL and in 1938 the Premio reale of the Accademia dei Lincei, of which he became a corresponding member in 1935 and its full member in 1942. He was also a member of the Bolognese and Turinese Academies, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the academies in Brussels and Liège and the Istituto Lombardo. He was an honorary doctor in Groningen, Bologna, Jassy. From 1941 to 1964 he was on the scientific council of the Istituto nazionale di alta matematica in Rome and from 1926 to 1959 in the committee for physics and mathematics of the Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche. 1951 to 1954 he was secretary of the International Mathematical Union. From 1949 to 1952 he was President of the Unione matematica italiana.
He wrote textbooks on projective, analytical, descriptive and non-Euclidean geometry.
Fabio Conforto is one of his students .
literature
Ciliberto, Ciro; Del Colombo, Emma Sallent: Enrico Bompiani: the years in Bologna. (English) [A] Coen, Salvatore (ed.), Mathematicians in Bologna 1861--1960. Basel: Birkhäuser. 143-177 (2012). ISBN 978-3-0348-0226-0 / hbk; ISBN 978-3-0348-0227-7 / ebook
Web links
- Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Enrico Bompiani. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bompiani, Enrico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd September 1975 |
| Place of death | Rome |