Alessandro Faedo

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.

Alessandro Faedo
Born	(1913-11-18)18 November 1913 Chiampo, Vicenza
Died	16 June 2001(2001-06-16) (aged 87)[1] Pisa
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	Università di Pisa
Known for	Faedo–Galerkin method
Scientific career
Fields	Numerical analysis Mathematical analysis
Institutions	Università di Pisa
Doctoral advisor	Leonida Tonelli

Selected publications

Scientific works

• Faedo, Sandro (1949), "Un nuovo metodo per l'analisi esistenziale e quantitativa dei problemi di propagazione" [A new method for the existential and quantitative analysis of propagation problems], Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Scienze, Serie 3 (in Italian), 1 (1–4): 1–41, MR 0032904, Zbl 0033.27502.
• Faedo, Sandro (1957), "Su un principio di esistenza nell'analisi lineare" [On an existence principle in linear analysis], Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Scienze, Serie 3 (in Italian), 11 (1–2): 1–8, MR 0096957, Zbl 0087.32304.
• Faedo, Sandro (1958), "Applicazione ai problemi di derivata obliqua di un principio esistenziale e di una legge di dualità fra le formule di maggiorazione" [Application to oblique derivative problems of an existence principle and a duality law between estimates], Rendiconti di Matematica e delle sue Applicazioni, V Serie (in Italian), 16: 515–532, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10918-8_4, MR 0096959, Zbl 0105.29902, reprinted also in the following book: Fichera, G.; Magenes, E., eds. (2011), Integrali singolari e questioni connesse [Singular integrals and related questions], Lecture Notes in Mathematics, C.I.M.E. Summer Schools (CIME, volume 13) (in Italian), 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.; Baiada, E.; et al. (eds.), Convegno celebrativo del centenario della nascita di Mauro Picone e Leonida Tonelli (6–9 maggio 1985), Atti dei Convegni Lincei (in Italian), vol. 77, Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, pp. 89–109, archived from the original on 2011-02-23, 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" [How Ennio De Giorgi came to the Scuola Normale Superiore], Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Scienze, Serie 4 (in Italian), 11 (3–4): 433–434, MR 1655526, Zbl 1001.01502, 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