Antonio Ambrosetti
Antonio Ambrosetti ( born November 25, 1944 in Bari ) is an Italian mathematician who deals with analysis.
Ambrosetti studied at the University of Padua with the Laurea degree in 1966. He is a professor at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati ( SISSA ) in Trieste.
In 1991 he had the Lagrange professor in Paris and in Madrid in 1998, the visiting professorship of Fondation BBV. He was also a visiting professor at the ETH Zurich, the University of Bologna, Rutgers University and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
He was a pioneer in the development of topological methods for existence theorems in the calculus of variations. In particular, he proved 1973, the Mountain Pass Theorem with Paul Rabinowitz .. It is for the determination of critical points ( saddle points ) of functionals to which we are led in many applications in the theory of ordinary and partial differential equations.
In 1982 he was awarded the Premio Caccioppoli. He was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw 1983 ( Existence and multiplicity results for some classes of nonlinear problems ). He's since 1988 and corresponding full since 2003 member of the Accademia dei Lincei and he is a member of the Istituto Veneto, the Turin Academy and the European Academy of Sciences. He was made an honorary Doctor of the Autonomous University of Madrid, 2005. In 2007 he received the Luigi Amerio price.
Writings
- With Giovanni Prodi: A Primer on Nonlinear Analysis, Cambridge University Press 1993
- On Perturbation Methods and semi- linear elliptic problem, Birkhauser 2006 ( received the 2005 Ferran Sunyer -i - Balaguer - price): Andrea Malchiodi
- With A. Malchiodi: Nonlinear Analysis and Semi- Linear Elliptic Problem, Cambridge University Press 2007
- With Vittorio Coti Zelati: Periodic solutions of singular Lagrangian systems, Birkhauser 1993
- La matematica e l' esistenza di Dio, Lindau 2009
- Il fascino della matematica, Bollati Boringhieri, 2009