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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, working in mathematical analysis and the calculus of variation.[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.[17]
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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.[18] Teaching mathematical analysis in Modena from 1961,[16] he was director of the Institute of Mathematics of the University from the academic year 1962—63 to the 1966—67:[19] he promoted its 1966 dedication to Giuseppe Vitali,[20] and was also behind the construction of the then new building for the department, which opened officially during the 1974-75 academic year.[21] Moreover he held the direction of the direction of the Atti del Seminario Matematico e Fisico dell'Università di Modena from 1977 up to 1983.[22]
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.[23]
Teaching activity
In 1961 he went from Palermo to Modena, teaching several mathematical analysis courses up to the year of his death.[24] 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] During his stay in Palermo, from 1952 to 1961, he was elected corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Palermo.[25] In 1967 he was elected corresponding member of the Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena.[26] On June 9, 1976, he was awarded the Golden medal "Benemeriti della Scuola, della Cultura, dell'Arte" by the President of the Italian Republic.[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.
- Baiada, Emilio (1951), "L'area delle superficie armoniche quale funzione delle rappresentazioni del contorno" [The area of harmonic surfaces as a function of their contour representations] (PDF), Rivista di Matematica della Università di Parma, (1) (in Italian), 2: 315–330, MR 0047125, Zbl 0044.28102.
- 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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