References for Vito Volterra

Version for printing
  1. E Volterra, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. E M Polishchuk, Vito Vol'terra 1860-1940 (Russian), Nauchno-Biograficheskaya Literatura, Izdat. 'Nauka' Leningrad. Otdel. (Leningrad, 1977).
  2. R Simili (ed.), Scienza, tecnologia e istituzioni in Europa : Vito Volterra e l'origine del Cnr (Rome, 1993).

Articles:

  1. E S Allen, The scientific work of Vito Volterra, Amer. Math. Monthly 48 (1941), 516-519.
  2. Anonymous, Vito Volterra, Archimede 10 (1958), 29-32.
  3. G Armellini, Vito Volterra e la sua opera scientifica, Ricerca Sci. 21 (1951), 3-12.
  4. A Borsellino, Vito Volterra and contemporary mathematical biology, Vito Volterra Symposium on Mathematical Models in Biology, Lecture Notes in Biomath. 39 (Berlin-New York, 1980), 410-417.
  5. G Castelnuovo, Obituary: Vito Volterra, Mem. Soc. Ital. Sci. (3) 25 (1943), 87-95.
  6. G Colonnetti, Nel cinquantesimo anniversario di una memoria di Vito Volterra che ha aperta vie nuove alla moderna scienza delle costruzioni, Univ. e Politec. Torino. Rend. Sem. Mat. 16 (1956-57), 95-100.
  7. D'Arcy W Thompson and S Chapman, Obituary: Prof. Vito Volterra, For. Mem. R S, Nature 147 (1941), 349-350.
  8. L Dell'Aglio and G Israel, The themes of stability and qualitative analysis in the works of Levi-Civita and Volterra (Italian), Italian mathematics between the two world wars (Bologna, 1987), 125-141.
  9. W Dunham, A historical gem from Vito Volterra, Math. Mag. 63 (4) (1990), 234-237.
  10. G Fichera, Vito Volterra and the birth of functional analysis, Development of mathematics 1900-1950 (Basel, 1994), 171-183.
  11. V Gavagna, From the theory of functions to functional analysis: the Arzelà-Volterra correspondence (Italian), Boll. Storia Sci. Mat. 14 (1) (1994), 3-89.
  12. A Guerraggio, Memoirs of Volterra and Peano on the motion of the poles (Italian), Archive for History of Exact Science 31 (2) (1984), 97-126.
  13. G Israel, Volterra Archive at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Historia Mathematica 9 (2) (1982), 229-238.
  14. G Israel, On Vito Volterra's proposals to confer the Nobel Prize in physics on Henri Poincaré (Italian), Proceedings of the fifth national congress on the history of physics, Rend. Accad. Naz. Sci. XL Mem. Sci. Fis. Natur. (5) 9 (1985), 227-229.
  15. G Krall, Vito Volterra: La matematica e la scienza del suo tempo, Civiltà delle Macchine 3 (1) (1955), 64-77.
  16. B Levi, The personality of Vito Volterra (Spanish), Publ. Inst. Mat. Univ. Nac. Litoral 3 (1941), 25-36.
  17. A Masotti, Bibliografie di Tullio Levi-Civita e Vito Volterra, Rend. Sem. Mat. Fis. Milano 17 (1946), 16-61.
  18. A F Monna, Volterra et les fonctions de lignes: un centenaire, Nieuw Arch. Wisk. (3) 30 (3) (1982), 247-257.
  19. A Pérard, Obituary: Vito Volterra (1860-1940), Cahiers de Physique 1941 (3) (1941), 51-58.
  20. E Picard, Obituary: Vito Volterra, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 211 (1940), 309-312.
  21. M Picone, Vito Volterra, Ricerca Sci. 26 (1956), 3277-3289.
  22. E M Poliscuk, Vito Volterra (Russian), Istor.-Mat. Issled. Vyp. 21 (1976), 183-213.
  23. Publications of Vito Volterra, Publ. Inst. Mat. Univ. Nac. Litoral 3 (1941), 37-48.
  24. A Rosenblatt, Obituary: Vito Volterra. (Spanish), Revista Ci., Lima 44 (1942), 423-442.
  25. C Somigliana, Obituary: Tullio Levi-Civita e Vito Volterra, Rend. Sem. Mat. Fis. Milano 17 (1946), 1-15.
  26. C Somigliana, Obituary: Vito Volterra, Pont. Acad. Sci. Acta 6 (1942), 57-85.
  27. L Tanzi Cattabianchi, The contributions of Vito Volterra to air ballistics (Italian), Riv. Mat. Univ. Parma (4) 14 (1988), 87-105.
  28. R Wavre, Obituary: Vito Volterra, 1860-1940, Enseignement Math. 38 (1942), 347-348.
  29. E T Whittacker, Vito Volterra, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 3 (1941), 619-729.
  30. E T Whittacker, Vito Volterra, J. London Math. Soc. 16 (1941), 131-139.
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