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Vito Volterra
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Vito Volterra (1860–1940) was an author associated with the Royal Society collection. His published works include *Variazioni e fluttuazioni del numero d'individui in specie animali conviventi*, *Fluctuations dans la lutte pour la vie*, *Henri Poincaré, Gösta Mittag-Leffler and Vito Volterra*, and *Théorie générale des fonctionnelles*.
Records indicate he produced 47 works, with five additional entries listed in Crossref. He is referenced by 127 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1860
- Died
- 1940
- Works
- 47
Top works
- Variazioni e fluttuazioni del numero d'individui in specie animali conviventi
- Fluctuations dans la lutte pour la vie
- Henri Poincaré
- Gösta Mittag-Leffler and Vito Volterra
- Théorie générale des fonctionnelles
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Efficient Behavior of Small-World Networks
· 2001 · cited 4,454x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
- Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease
· 2012 · cited 4,294x
- Baseline Characteristics and Outcomes of 1591 Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2 Admitted to ICUs of the Lombardy Region, Italy
· 2020 · cited 4,269x
- The 2005 World Health Organization Reevaluation of Human and Mammalian Toxic Equivalency Factors for Dioxins and Dioxin-Like Compounds
· 2006 · cited 3,296x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I did not hesitate at the Congress of Mathematicians at Paris to call the nineteenth century the century of the theory of functions, as the eighteenth century might have been called that of infinitesimal calculus.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1860-05-03 ) 3 May 1860, Ancona , Papal States
- Died
- 11 October 1940 (1940-10-11) (aged 80), Rome , Kingdom of Italy
- Alma mater
- University of Pisa , Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
- Known for
- Volterra integral equation , Volterra operator , Lotka–Volterra equations , Volterra lattice
- Awards
- ForMemRS
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Pisa , University of Turin , Sapienza University of Rome
- Doctoral advisor
- Enrico Betti
- Doctoral students
- Paul Lévy , Joseph Pérès , Cornelia Fabri
- Preceded by
- Ulisse Dini
- Succeeded by
- Emanuele Paternò
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Vito
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Ancona
- Place of death
- Rome
- Child
- Edoardo Volterra
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Educated at
- University of Pisa
- Employer
- Sapienza University of Rome
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Enrico Betti
- Student of
- Ulisse Dini
- Doctoral student
- Paul Pierre Lévy
- Field of work
- functional analysis
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- Vito Volterra.jpg
Show 8 more facts
- student
- René Gateaux
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- Vito Volterra
- date of birth
- 1860-05-03
- date of death
- 1940-10-11
- Commons Creator page
- Vito Volterra
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- writing language
- Italian
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Vito Volterra KBE FRS(For) HFRSE (/voʊlˈtɛrə/, Italian: [ˈviːto volˈtɛrra]; 3 May 1860 – 11 October 1940) was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations, being one of the founders of functional analysis.
Biography
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