Enrico Giusti
Enrico Giusti (born October 28, 1940 in Florence ) is an Italian mathematician who deals with analysis, the history of mathematics and mathematics education.
Giusti first studied physics at the University of Rome , where he obtained his diploma (Laurea) in 1963. Then he was at the nuclear research center INFN in Florence. He then turned to mathematics and joined the then very active analysis research group around Enrico Bombieri in Pisa (at that time at the center of a rapidly developing analysis research in Italy, where Aldo Andreotti , Ennio de Giorgi , Guido Stampacchia were also). In 1965 he became an assistant at the University of Pisa . In 1972 he became Associate Professor at the University of L'Aquila and in 1975 Full Professor at the University of Trieste . In 1978 he went to the University of Pisa and from 1980 he was at the University of Florence .
He was visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley , Stanford University , the Mittag-Leffler Institute , the Institute for Advanced Study , the Nankai University in China and the University of Paris VII .
He initially dealt with partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, differential geometry and minimal surfaces (with di Giorgi and Bombieri from the 1960s), but in the 1980s he turned to the history of mathematics and, among other things, dealt with early analysis in the 17th century ( Bonaventura Cavalieri , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and others), René Descartes , Galileo Galilei and his school, Augustin Louis Cauchy . He also published popular science books on the history of mathematics and wrote a book on mathematics in the kitchen.
With Bombieri and Giorgi he completed the solution of the Bernstein problem in the differential geometry of the minimal surfaces in Euclidean space in 1969 (see the article Ennio de Giorgi ).
In the 2000s he was busy developing an interactive mathematics museum, the Archimedes Garden (Il Giardino di Archimede), which he founded in Florence in 1999.
In 1968 he received the Pomini Prize and in 1978 the Premio Caccioppoli . He received the medal of the Accademia Nazionale dei XL.
Fonts
- Minimal surfaces and functions of bounded variation, Birkhäuser 1984
- Direct methods in the calculus of variations, World Scientific 2003
- Equazioni ellittiche del secondo ordine, Bologna, Pittagora 1978
- Bonaventura Cavalieri and the theory of indivisibles, Cremonese, Rome 1980
- Euclides reformatus. La teoria della proporzioni nella scuola galileana, Bollati Boringhieri 1993
- Ipotesa sulla natura degli oggetti matematici, Bollati Boringhieri 1999 (Hypotheses about the nature of mathematical objects)
- Piccola storia del calcolo infinitesimale dall'antichità al Novecento, Pisa 2007
- Publisher: Un ponte sul Mediterraneo: Leonardo Pisano, la scienza araba e la rinascita della matematica in Occidente, Florence 2002
- Editor with Luigi Pepe: La matematica in Italia (1800-1950), Florence 2001
- Editor with Carlo Maccagni: Luca Pacioli e la matematica del Rinascimento, Florence 2004
- La Matematica in Cucina, Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, 2004 (Mathematics in the kitchen)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of publications on the history of mathematics, pdf ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homepage of the museum
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Giusti, Enrico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |