Enrico Giusti

Enrico Giusti ( born October 28, 1940 in Florence ) is an Italian mathematician who deals with analysis, history of mathematics and mathematics education.

Giusti initially studied physics at the University of Rome, where he developed the Diploma ( Laurea ) acquired in 1963. After that he was in Florence at the nuclear research center INFN. He then turned to mathematics and joined the then very active Analysis Research Group at Enrico Bombieri in Pisa (then the center of a rapidly developing Analysis research in Italy, where Aldo Andreotti, Ennio de Giorgi, Guido Stampacchia were ). In 1965 he became an assistant at the University of Pisa. He was associate professor at the University of L' Aquila and 1975 full professor at the University of Trieste in 1972. In 1978 he went to the University of Pisa and from 1980 he was at the University of Florence.

He has been a visiting scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, the Mittag-Leffler Institute, the Institute for Advanced Study, Nankai University in China and the University of Paris VII

He dealt first with partial differential equations, calculus of variations, differential geometry and minimal surfaces ( with di Giorgi and Bombieri from the 1960s ), but turned in the 1980s, the history of mathematics to and dealt among other things with earlier analysis in the 17th century ( Bonaventura Cavalieri Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and others), René Descartes, Galileo Galilei and his school, Augustin Louis Cauchy. He also published popular science books on the history of mathematics and wrote a book about mathematics in the kitchen.

In the 2000s he was involved in the development of an interactive math Museum, the Garden of Archimedes ( Il Giardino di Archimede ), which he founded in Florence in 1999.

In 1968 he received the Pomini Price and 1978 the Premio Caccioppoli. He received the Medal of the Accademia Nazionale dei XL.

Writings

  • Minimal surfaces and functions of bounded variation, Birkhauser 1984
  • Direct methods in the calculus of variations, World Scientific 2003
  • Equazioni ellittiche del secondo ordine, Bologna, Pitt Agora 1978
  • Bonaventura Cavalieri and the theory of indivisibles, Cremonese, Rome 1980
  • Euclides Reformatus. La teoria della proporzioni nella scuola galileana, Bollati Boringhieri 1993
  • Ipotesa sulla natura degli oggetti matematici, Bollati Boringhieri 1999 ( hypotheses about the nature of mathematical objects )
  • Piccola storia del calcolo infinitesimal dall'antichità al Novecento, Pisa 2007
  • Publisher: Un ponte sul Mediterraneo: Leonardo Pisano, la scienza araba e la rinascita della matematica in Occidente, Florence 2002
  • Publisher Luigi Pepe: La matematica in Italia (1800-1950), Florence 2001
  • Publisher with Carlo Maccagni: Luca Pacioli e la matematica del Rinascimento, Florence 2004
  • La Matematica in Cucina, Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, 2004 ( Mathematics in the kitchen )
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