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Emilio Baiada

Italian mathematician (1914–1984) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Emilio Baiada (January 12, 1914 in Tunis – May 14, 1984 in Modena) (also known as Emilio Bajada)[6] was an Italian mathematician.[7]

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Education and career

He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he graduated with highest honors in June 1937 along with Leonida Tonelli,[8] with whom he worked as an assistant from 1938 to 1941,[9] when he left for the war.[10] In 1945 he began to teach analysis, theory of functions, calculus and rational mechanics at the Scuola Normale. In 1948 he obtained a degree in Analysis; his Ph.D. thesis was written under the direction of Tonelli and Marston Morse.[11]

In 1949 he went on leave from the University of Pisa and moved first to the University of Cincinnati,[12][13] where he worked with scientists like Otto Szász and Charles Napoleon Moore, and then to Princeton University,[14] where he worked with Morse.[15] In 1952 he obtained the chair of analysis of the University of Palermo, where he taught until 1961 before transferring to the University of Modena,[16] where he re-launched the Institute of Mathematics and developed its Library and Mathematical Seminar.

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Work

Institutional work

Baiada was one of the leading forces behind the reprise in mathematical studies in Modena in the postwar period.[17]

Research activity

He published more than 60 papers on differential equations, Fourier series and the series expansion of orthonormal functions, topology of varieties, real analysis, calculus of variations and the theory of functions.

Teaching activity

Vinti (2007) gives a complete list of Emilio Baiada's doctoral students.

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Honors

Baiada won the Michel prize for the best thesis in Pisa,[1] and the 1940 Merlani prize of the Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna for "contributions on subjects of calculus of variations".[2] In 1967 he was elected corresponding member of the Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena.[18] On June 9, 1976, he was awarded by President of the Italian Republic the Golden medal "Benemeriti della Scuola, della Cultura, dell'Arte".[3][4]

Selected publications

  • Baiada, Emilio (1939), "Osservazioni sulla misurabilita secondo Caratheodory." [Observations on measurability according to Caratheodory], Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore, Serie II (in Italian), 8 (1): 69–74, JFM 65.0199.02, MR 1556817, Zbl 0020.10803.
  • Morse, Marston; Baiada, Emilio (1953), "Homotopy and homology related to the Schoenflies problem", Annals of Mathematics, 2, 58: 142–165, doi:10.2307/1969825, MR 0056922, Zbl 0052.19902.
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References

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