Carlo Cercignani

Carlo Cercignani ( born June 17, 1939 in Teulada, Cagliari, † January 7, 2010 in Milan ) was an Italian mathematician and physicist.

Life

Cercignani studied at the University of Milan with the Laurea degree in physics in 1961 and in mathematics in 1963. He was professor of mechanics and aerodynamics at the Politecnico in Milan and member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the French Académie des Sciences. He was a specialist of the Boltzmann equation, which he treated in many of his books.

In 1998 he received the Medaglia della cultura e dell'arte ai benemeriti. 1984 to 1987 he was Chairman of the Mathematics Committee of the National Research Council CNR.

Publications

  • Rarefied Gas Dynamics. From Basic Concepts to Actual Calculations. University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-65992-2.
  • Ludwig Boltzmann, The Man Who Trusted Atoms. University Press, Oxford 1999, ISBN 0-19-850154-4.
  • The Relativistic Boltzmann Equation. Theory and Applications. Birkhäuser, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6693-1 (along with Gilberto M. Kremer ).
  • The Mathematical Theory of Dilute gas. Springer, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-540-94294-7 (Applied mathematical sciences; 106).
  • Many Particle Dynamics and Kinetic Equations. Kluwer, Dordrecht 1997, ISBN 0-7923-4696-3.
  • Mathematical Methods in Kinetic Theory. Plenum Press, New York, 1990, ISBN 0-306-43460-1 ( Nachdr d ed London 1969).
  • The Boltzmann Equation and Its Applications. Springer, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-540-96637-4.
  • Theory and Application of the Boltzmann Equation. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh 1975.
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