Guido Stampacchia
Guido Stampacchia | |
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Born | Naples, Italy | 26 March 1922
Died | 27 April 1978 Paris, France | (aged 56)
Occupation | Mathematician |
Guido Stampacchia (26 March 1922 – 27 April 1978) was an Italian mathematician, known for his work on the theory of
Life and academic career
Stampacchia was born in Naples, Italy, to Emanuele Stampacchia and Giulia Campagnano. He obtained his high school certification from the Liceo-Ginnasio Giambattista Vico in Naples in classical subjects, although he showed a stronger aptitude for mathematics and physics.[1]
In 1940 he was admitted to the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa for undergraduate studies in pure mathematics. He was drafted in March 1943 but nevertheless managed to take examinations during the summer before joining the resistance movement against the Germans in the defence of Rome in September. He was discharged in June 1945.[1]
In 1944 he won a scholarship to the
He married fellow student Sara Naldini in October 1948. Children Mauro, Renata, Giulia, and Franca were born in 1949, 1951, 1955 and 1956 respectively.[1]
Stampacchia was active in research and teaching throughout his career. He made key contributions to a number of fields, including
Stampacchia accepted the position of Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the
The Stampacchia Medal, an international prize awarded every three years for contributions to the Calculus of Variations, was established in 2003.[6]
Selected works
- Stampacchia, Guido (1963), "Second order elliptic equations and boundary value problems", Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 15–22 August 1962, Stockholm (PDF), Zbl 0137.06803, archived from the original(PDF) on 21 December 2016, retrieved 11 December 2016.
- with Sergio Campanato, Sulle maggiorazioni in Lp nella teoria delle equazioni ellittiche, Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1965.
- with Jaurès Cecconi, Lezioni di analisi matematica, I: Funzioni di una variabile, Napoli: Liguori editore, 1974, ISBN 88-207-0127-8
- with Jaurès Cecconi, Lezioni di analisi matematica, II: Funzioni di più variabili, Napoli: Liguori, 1980, ISBN 88-207-1022-6
- with Jaurès Cecconi and Livio Clemente Piccinini, Esercizi e problemi di analisi matematica, Napoli: Liguori, 1996, ISBN 978-88-207-0744-6
- Piccinini, Livio C.; Stampacchia, Guido; Vidossich, Giovanni (1978), Equazioni differenziali ordinarie in Rn (problemi e metodi), Serie di matematica e Fisica "T" (in Italian), vol. 5, Zbl 0535.34001.
- with David Kinderlehrer: An introduction to variational inequalities and their applications, NY, Academic Press, 1980[7]
- Reprint: )
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f (Mazzone 2005).
- ^ According to De Angelis & Sbordone (1999, p. 37), he was assistant professor to the chair of mathematical analysis for the academic years 1946/47 and 1947/48.
- ^ The "free professorship" (in a literal free English translation) was an academic title similar to the German "Habilitation", no longer in force in Italy since 1970.
- ^ Guido Stampacchia on The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- ^ Silvia Mazzone, Guido Stampacchia Archived 5 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "REGULATION OF THE GOLD MEDAL "GUIDO STAMPACCHIA" PRIZE" (PDF). Italian Mathematical Union.
- .
References
Biographical references
- De Angelis, P. L.; Istituto Universitario Navale/RCE Edizioni, pp. 37–38. The chapter on Stampacchia in the a book collecting brief biographical sketches and bibliographies of the scientific the work produced by the mathematicians who worked at the Parthenope University of Naplesduring their stay.
- Ridolfi, Roberto, ed. (1976), "Guido Stampacchia", Biografie e bibliografie degli Accademici Lincei [Biographies and bibliographies of the Lincean Academicians] (in Italian), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, pp. 637–638. The biographical and bibliographical entry (updated up to 1976) on Guido Stampacchia, published under the auspices of the Accademia dei Lincei in a book collecting many profiles of its living members up to 1976.
General references
- Mazzone, Silvia (2005), "Guido Stampacchia", in Giannessi, Franco; Maugeri, Antonino (eds.), Variational analysis and applications, Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications, vol. 79, New York: Zbl 1093.01539.