Giovanni Sansone

Giovanni Sansone ( born May 24, 1888 in Porto Empedocle, † October 13, 1979 in Florence ) was an Italian mathematician who dealt with Analysis.

Sansone studied from 1906 to 1910 at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and was at Luigi Bianchi doctorate ( Laurea ). He taught at the Scuola Normale Superiore and was a professor from 1927 to his retirement in 1958 professor at the University of Florence. In the 1960s, he was chairman of the National Committee for Mathematics of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ( CNR).

He dealt with differential equations, differential geometry, numerical mathematics and orthogonal functions.

Among his students Enrico Magenes and Carlo Pucci.

1952 to 1958 he was president of the Unione Matematica Italiana. During his presidency, the Centro internazionale Matematico was founded estivo ( CIME ). He was editor of the Annali di Matematica Pura e Applicata.

In 1978 he was made an honorary citizen of Florence and in the same year honorary doctorate from the University of Florence. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1953 ) and received the 1942 Mathematics Prize of the Accademia dei XL.

Writings

• Johan Gerretsen: Lectures on the theory of functions of a complex variable, 2 volumes, Groningen: Noordhoff 1960, 1969 ( original in Italian: Lezioni sulla teoria delle funzioni di una variabile complessa, 2 volumes 1947)
• Equazioni differenziali nel campo real, 2 volumes, Bologna: Zanichelli 1948/49,
• Roberto Conti: Lezioni di matematica analisi, 2 volumes, CEDAM 1962 1969
• Orthogonal Functions, Interscience 1959, Dover 2004
• Roberto Conti: Equazioni differenziali non linearized, Rome: Edizione Cremonese 1956
• R. Reissig, Roberto Conti: Non-linear differential equations of higher order, Rome: Edizione Cremonese 1969
• With Reissig, Conti: Qualitative theory of nonlinear differential equations, Rome: Edizione Cremonese 1963