Piero Villaggio

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Piero Villaggio (born December 30, 1932 in Genoa , † January 4, 2014 in Rapallo ) was an Italian engineer and mathematician.

Villaggio was the son of the civil engineer Ettore Villaggio (1905–1992) and a German teacher (Villagio knew German well and knew German engineering literature). He studied civil engineering at the University of Genoa with his degree in 1957 (his teachers include Edoardo Benvenuto and the mathematician Guido Stampacchia ), then worked at the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Rome (among others with Guido Krall ) and returned to the University of Genoa in 1959 as a lecturer back. In 1966 he became professor of structural engineering and strength theory (Scienza delle construzioni) at the University of Pisa , where he retired in 2008. At the university he also taught mathematics and from 1982 he also taught at the Scuola normal superiore in Pisa.

He was visiting professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Minnesota .

He dealt with mathematical elasticity theory, which he also applied to non-classical problems such as Coulomb friction. Gérard Maugin called him an original, deep thinker with a sometimes surprising sense of humor in his choice of subjects.

He was also involved in the publication of the works of Johann I Bernoulli and Nicolaus II Bernoulli at Birkhäuser (Volume 6, Mechanics, 2008).

He is the twin brother of the actor and writer Paolo Villaggio (1932-2017).

He was a passionate mountaineer and a member of the Italian Alpine Academic Club (CAAI). In 1998 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei .

literature

  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 1073f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .
  • Roger Fosdick, Gianni Royer-Carfagni: In Recognition of the 70th Birthday of Piero Villaggio, Journal of Elasticity, Volume 68, 2002, pp. 3-6 (list of publications pp. 7-12), online

Fonts

  • Qualitative methods in elasticity, Noordhoff 1977
  • Mathematical models for elastic structures, Cambridge UP 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Villaggio, An elastic theory of Coulomb friction, Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., Vol. 70, 1979, pp. 135-143
  2. ↑ Maugin, Continuum Mechanics through the twentieth century, Springer-Verlag , 2013, p. 153
personal data
SURNAME Villaggio, Piero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian engineer and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2014
Place of death Rapallo