Enrico Magenes

Enrico Magenes (born April 15, 1923 in Milan , † November 2, 2010 in Pavia ) was an Italian mathematician who dealt with numerical analysis and partial differential equations .

Magenes studied mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore , which was interrupted by the war. He was active in Pavia in the Catholic Action (forerunners of the Democrazia Cristiana) and for this in the National Liberation Committee. In 1944 he was arrested and taken to the Flossenbürg concentration camp and then to the Kottern-Weidach satellite camp , where he worked for Messerschmidt Flugzeugwerke and from which he was liberated in 1945. He continued his studies in Pisa with Leonida Tonelli (who died in 1946 and under whom he published on the calculus of variations ) and Giovanni Sansone with the laureate degree in 1947, became assistant in Padua in 1948, associate professor in Modena in 1952, went to Genoa and in 1955 finally became Professor of Analysis at the University of Pavia in 1959 . In 1970 he founded the Institute for Numerical Analysis (IMATI) of the national research council CNR, which he headed for over twenty years (it was named after him in 2011). He was also President of the Collegio Universitario Santa Caterina da Siena at the University of Pavia.

He dealt with the calculus of variations and partial differential equations. With Jacques-Louis Lions he wrote a three-volume monograph on non-homogeneous boundary value problems.

He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei , the Istituto Lombardo, the Royal Scientific Society in Liège and the Academia Europaea . In 2003 he received the Lagrange Prize from ICIAM.

From 1973 to 1975 he was President of the Unione Matematica Italiana .

Fonts

• with Jacques-Louis Lions Problèmes aux limites non homogènes et applications , 3 volumes, Paris: Dunod 1968, 1970

Web links

• Biography at McTutor