Giovanni Prodi
Giovanni Prodi (born June 28, 1925 in Scandiano , † January 29, 2010 in Pisa ) was an Italian mathematician who dealt with analysis .
Life
He was the eldest of nine children of the engineer Mario Prodi and the teacher Enrica Prodi, the brother of Romano Prodi , the meteorologist Franco Prodi , the physicist and MEP Vittorio Prodi , the historian Paolo Prodi and the doctor and writer Giorgio Prodi . After graduating from high school in 1943, interrupted by the war, he studied mathematics at the University of Parma with the Laurea degree in 1948 with Giovanni Ricci . He then worked as an assistant to Giovanni Ricci in Milan. From 1956 to 1963 he was a professor in Trieste and then at the University of Pisa .
In 1959 he proved the uniqueness of the weak solution of the Navier-Stokes equation in two dimensions independently of Jacques-Louis Lions . He was considered the nestor of nonlinear analysis in Italy.
He also dealt with mathematics education in collaboration with his wife Silvia Dentella. Here he developed the Prodi project with a special focus on statistics and constructive mathematics as a natural extension of the Italian national program for computer science in schools.
In 2001 he received an honorary doctorate in Palermo. A guest professorship for nonlinear analysis of the DAAD at the University of Würzburg is named after him.
In 1980 he received the Mathematics Prize of the Accademia dei XL .
Fonts
- Analisi matematica. Bollati Boringhieri, Turin 1970, ISBN 88-339-5329-7 .
- as editor: Eigenvalues of non-linear problems. III ciclo, Varenna, 16-25 giugno 1974. Cremonese, Rome 1974.
- with Antonio Ambrosetti : A Primer on Nonlinear Analysis (= Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. 34). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1993, ISBN 0-521-37390-5 .
- Lezioni di analisi matematica 2. A cura di Antonio Ambrosetti e Giovanna Cerami. Bollati Boringhieri, Turin 2011, ISBN 978-88-339-5812-5 .
literature
- Antonio Ambrosetti, Antonio Marino (Eds.): Nonlinear analysis. A tribute in honor of Giovanni Prodi. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 1991.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Giovanni Prodi in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Prodi Chair in Würzburg ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prodi, Giovanni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Scandiano |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 2010 |
| Place of death | Pisa |