Mathematician:Samuel Giuseppe Vito Volterra

Mathematician

Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.

One of the founders of functional analysis.

Nationality

Italian

History

• Born: 3 May 1860 in Ancona, Papal States (now Italy)
• Died: 11 October 1940 in Rome, Italy

Theorems and Definitions

• Smith-Volterra-Cantor Set (with Henry John Stephen Smith and Georg Cantor)
• Volterra's Function
• Lotka-Volterra Equation (with Alfred James Lotka)

• Volterra Integral Equation:
  • Volterra Integral Equation of the First Kind
  • Volterra Integral Equation of the Second Kind

• Volterra Operator
• Volterra Semiconductor
• Volterra Series
• Volterra Space

Results named for Samuel Giuseppe Vito Volterra can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Samuel Giuseppe Vito Volterra can be found here.

Publications

• 1910: Leçons sur les Fonctions de Lignes
• 1912: The Theory of Permutable Functions
• 1913: Leçons sur les Équations Intégrales et les Équations Intégro-Différentielles
• 1926: Variazioni e Fluttuazioni del Numero d'Individui in Specie Animali Conviventi
• 1926: Fluctuations in the Abundance of a Species Considered Mathematically
• 1930: Theory of functionals and of integral and integro-differential equations
• 1931: Leçons sur la théorie mathématique de la lutte pour la vie

Also known as

Usually known as Vito Volterra.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Samuel Giuseppe Vito Volterra": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Volterra's integral equations
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Volterra's integral equations