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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Renato Caccioppoli (Italian pronunciation: ; 20 January 1904 8 May 1959) was an Italian mathematician. Born in Naples, Campania, he was the of Giuseppe Caccioppoli (1852-1947), a surgeon, and his second wife Sofia Bakunin (1870-1956), daughter of the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin. After earning his diploma in 1921, he enrolled in the department of engineering, but in November, 1923 changed to mathematics. Immediately after earning his laurea, in 1925, he the assistant of Mauro Picone, who in that year was called to the University of Naples, where he remained until 1932. Picone immediately discovered Caccioppoli's gifts and pointed him towards research in mathematical analysis. In the course of the next five years, Caccioppoli published about thirty works on topics developed in the complete autonomy provided by a ministerial award for mathematics in 1931, a competition he won at the age of 27, the chair of analisi-algebrica at the University of Padova. In 1934 he returned to Naples to accept the chair in group theory; later he took the chair of superior analysis, and from 1943 onwards, the chair in mathematical analysis. In 1931 he became a correspondent member of the Academy of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of Naples, becoming an ordinary member in 1938. In 1944 he became an ordinary member of the Pontanian Academy, and in 1947 a correspondent member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and a national member in 1958. He was also a correspondent member of the Paduan Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts. In the years from 1947 to 1957 he directed, together with Carlo Miranda, the journal Giornale di Matematiche, founded by Giuseppe Battaglini. In 1948 he became a member of the editing committee of Annali di Matematica, and starting in 1... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4262313 ... Read more

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Questo numero è dedicato alla figura di Renato Caccioppoli, nel centenario della nascita. Caccioppoli è una delle personalità più significative e singolari della Matematica italiana del Novecento. I suoi risultati vengono ancor oggi citati e menzionati, a partire da quel teorema sul punto fisso che è forse il suo contributo più "popolare". Anche il suo stile espositivo è inconfondibile. Né si può dimenticare il ruolo svolto per "aggiustare" la ricerca italiana in Analisi funzionale, riallineandola rispetto alle situazioni più promettenti che si andavano ormai delineando negli anni Trenta. Ma parlare di Caccioppoli permette di toccare anche altri argomenti. Con lui entriamo a contatto con la società e la cultura italiana - a Napoli, in particolare - nel periodo tra le due guerre mondiali e in quei 10-15 anni che separano la fine della guerra dal suo suicidio, nel 1959.