Biography:Alessandro Faedo
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Short description: Italian mathematician and politician
Alessandro Faedo | |
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| Born | 18 November 1913 Chiampo, Vicenza |
| Died | 16 June 2001 (aged 87)[1] Pisa |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Alma mater | Università di Pisa |
| Known for | Faedo–Galerkin method |
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| Institutions | Università di Pisa |
| Doctoral advisor | Leonida Tonelli |
Alessandro Faedo (18 November 1913 – 15 June 2001)[1] (also known as Alessandro Carlo Faedo or Sandro Faedo) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university.
Selected publications
Scientific works
- Faedo, Sandro (1949), "Un nuovo metodo per l'analisi esistenziale e quantitativa dei problemi di propagazione" (in it), Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Scienze, Serie 3 1 (1–4): 1–41, http://www.numdam.org/item?id=ASNSP_1949_3_1_1-4_1_0.
- Faedo, Sandro (1957), "Su un principio di esistenza nell'analisi lineare" (in it), Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Scienze, Serie 3 11 (1–2): 1–8, http://www.numdam.org/item?id=ASNSP_1957_3_11_1-2_1_0.
- Faedo, Sandro (1958), "Applicazione ai problemi di derivata obliqua di un principio esistenziale e di una legge di dualità fra le formule di maggiorazione" (in it), Rendiconti di Matematica e delle sue Applicazioni, V Serie 16: 515–532, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10918-8_4, reprinted also in the following book: Fichera, G.; Magenes, E., eds. (2011) (in it), Integrali singolari e questioni connesse, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, C.I.M.E. Summer Schools (CIME, volume 13), pp. 109-123, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10918-8_4, ISBN 978-3-642-10916-4.
Historical, commemorative and survey works
- Faedo, Sandro (1986), "Leonida Tonelli e la scuola matematica pisana", in Montalenti, G.; Amerio, L.; Acquaro, G. et al. (in it), Convegno celebrativo del centenario della nascita di Mauro Picone e Leonida Tonelli (6–9 maggio 1985), Atti dei Convegni Lincei, 77, Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, pp. 89–109, http://www.lincei.it/pubblicazioni/catalogo/volume.php?lg=e&rid=32847, retrieved 2014-02-09. "Leonida Tonelli and the Pisa mathematical school" (English translation of the title) is a survey of the work of Tonelli in Pisa and his influence on the development of the school, presented at the International congress in occasion of the celebration of the centenary of birth of Mauro Picone and Leonida Tonelli (held in Rome on 6–9 May 1985).
- Faedo, Sandro (1997), "Come Ennio De Giorgi giunse alla Scuola Normale Superiore" (in it), Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Scienze, Serie 4 11 (3–4): 433–434, http://www.numdam.org/item?id=ASNSP_1997_4_25_3-4_433_0, is a brief commemorative historical paper describing the events which led Ennio De Giorgi to hold a chair at the Scuola Normale Superiore.
See also
- Calculus of variation
- Fichera's existence principle
- Variational method
- Ritz method
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 According to (Letta 2001), (Miranda 2005) and as reported by The Editorial Board|2006}}|The editorial board of the "Architetture Pisane" journal (2006, p. 13). In the obituary appeared on the The Editorial Board|2001}}|2nd issue of volume 6 (2001, p.17) of the bulletin of the "Scuola Normale Superiore" Students' association, the date reported is 15 June 2001.
References
Biographical and general references
- Bottazzini, Umberto (2010), "La Scuola matematica pisana (1860–1960)" (in it), Annali di Storia delle Università Italiane 14, http://www.cisui.unibo.it/annali/14/testi/14Bottazzini_frameset.htm.
- Festinese, Giuseppe; Paoloni, Giovanni, eds. (2013), "I presidenti: Alessandro Faedo", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. L'impresa scientifica 1923–2013, Roma: CNR Edizioni, p. 192, http://novantennale.cnr.it/storia/95-cat-presidenti-cnr/102-alessandro-faedo. The presidents: Alessandro Faedo (English translation of title) is a brief biographical chapter on Alessandro Faedo published in the book celebrating the first 90th years of the CNR.
- Letta, Giorgio (August–September 2001), Scomparsa di Alessandro Faedo, http://www.dm.unibo.it/umi/italiano/Varie/2001/scomparsa0809.html, retrieved 9 February 2014. A short commemoration of Alessandro Faedo written by Giorgio Letta for the Notiziario UMI and published online on the old web site of the Unione Matematica Italiana, preserved in its original form by the Internet Archive, but also available here from the University Library Service of the University of Pisa.
- Miranda, Mario (5 June 2005) (in it), La riforma universitaria e gli studi scientifici. La matematica e la fisica nel biennio propedeutico, Discorsi in occasione delle Adunanze Solenni dell'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venezia: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, pp. 1–3, http://www.istitutoveneto.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeAttachment.php/L/IT/D/8%252F8%252F8%252FD.ed70324e4e45c2c1b876/P/BLOB%3AID%3D21, retrieved 9 February 2014. The inaugural address given by Mario Miranda during the official 2005 meeting of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.
- The Editorial Board (October 2001), "La scomparsa di Alessandro Faedo" (in it), Normale. Bollettino dell'Associazione Normalisti IV (2): 17, http://www.sns.it/scuola/associazioni/normalisti/bollettino/archivio/0110IVn2/download/NormaleIVn2-All.pdf is a short obituary notice published few months after the death of Alessandro Faedo.
- The Editorial Board (2006), "Alessandro Faedo. Un grande matematico e innovatore dell'Università italiana" (in it), Residenze universitarie: il collegio "Alessandro Faedo" nell'area ex Forest, Architetture Pisane, speciale 3, Pisa: Edizioni ETS, pp. 12–13, ISBN 978-88-467-1566-1, http://www.edizioniets.com/architetturepisane/03_spec/Faedo_Ex-Forest.pdf. "Alessandro Faedo. A leading mathematician and innovator of Italian University" (English translation of the title) is a short commemoration of Alessandro Faedo, cured by the editorial board of the "Architetture Pisane" architecture journal. It was published in a special issue on the Collegio Faedo, the university college named after him in Pisa, and reissued in book form.
- Magenes, Enrico (June 2003), "Sandro Faedo matematico" (in it), Normale. Bollettino dell'Associazione Normalisti VI (1): 2–5, http://bollettinonormale.sns.it/anno-vi-n-1-giugno-2003/. A commemorative paper focusing mainly on Faedo's results in mathematics, while sketching only briefly his work as a research organizer and as a teacher.
- Rossi, Paolo (2012), "Le quattro stagioni degli scienziati pisani" (in it), L'organizzazione dei saperi all'Università di Pisa. Dalle Facoltà ai nuovi dipartimenti, Pisa: Pisa University Press, pp. 1–24, ISBN 9788867410767, http://www.df.unipi.it/~rossi/Scienze.pdf. "The four seasons of Pisan scientists" a paper describing the historical development of the scientific faculties at the University of Pisa.
Scientific references
- Benzi, Michele; Toscano, Elena (May 2014), "Mauro Picone, Sandro Faedo, and the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations in Italy (1928–1953)", Numerical Algorithms 66 (1): 105–145, doi:10.1007/s11075-013-9727-6, previously published as Mauro Picone, Sandro Faedo, and the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations in Italy (1928–1953), Math/CS Technical Report, TR-2013-003, March 2013, pp. 33, http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~benzi/Web_papers/picone.pdf.
- Orlando, Lucia (March 2004), "The SIRIO satellite, 1968–1977: Between scientific engagement and managerial inexperience", Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 34 (2): 371–398, doi:10.1525/hsps.2004.34.2.371.
Publications and conferences and dedicated to Alessandro Faedo
- AA. VV. (January–March 1985), "Issue dedicated to Sandro Faedo on his 70th birthday" (in en, fr, it), Calcolo 61 (2): 1–228, ISSN 0008-0624, https://link.springer.com/journal/10092/22/1/page/1 (e–ISSN 1126-5434).
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (May 2013), "Alessandro Faedo", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Faedo.html.
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