Emilio Baiada

Emilio Baiada (January 12, 1914 in Tunis – May 14, 1984 in Modena) (also known as Emilio Bajada)See for example . was an Italian mathematician, working in mathematical analysis and the calculus of variation.See , , .

Education and career

He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he graduated with highest honors in June 1937 along with Leonida Tonelli, reports that his doctoral examination was held on July 4th, 1937. with whom he worked as an assistant from 1938 to 1941, when he left for the war. reports that it was in 1940 that he was called to arms in the military aviation. In 1945 he began to teach analysis, theory of functions, calculus and rational mechanics at the Scuola Normale. In 1948 he obtained a degree in Analysis; his Ph.D. thesis was written under the direction of Tonelli and Marston Morse.

In 1949 he went on leave from the University of Pisa and moved first to the University of Cincinnati,See , , . writes that Baiada was elected to membership during the fifty-six Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, on nomination of institutional members, specifically the University of Cincinnati: furthermore he writes that at the Meeting Baiada read the paper "An Isoperimetric Problem for Ship-Bodies" , presented by C. N. Moore . where he worked with scientists like Otto Szász and Charles Napoleon Moore, and then to Princeton University,See , , , . states he stayed there in the years 1950 and 1951, while is slightly more precise, saying that he worked at the institute from September 1950 to July 1951: other references are less detailed. where he worked with Morse.
In 1952 he obtained the chair of analysis of the University of Palermo, where he taught until 1961 before transferring to the University of Modena., . where he re-launched the Institute of Mathematics and developed its Library and Mathematical Seminar. writes that

Work

Institutional work

Baiada was one of the leading forces behind the reprise in mathematical studies in Modena in the postwar period. Teaching mathematical analysis in Modena from 1961, he was director of the Institute of Mathematics of the University from the academic year 1962—63 to the 1966—67: he promoted its 1966 dedication to Giuseppe Vitali,, . Furthermore, according to , in the archive of the Italian Mathematical Union at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Bologna, precisely in the Vitali fonds, two letters written by Emilio Baiada from 1966 to 1968 to the Rector of the University of Modena are conserved. The first one is a request to have the Institute in Modena named after Vitali, while the second one is a request to remedy the omission of Vitali’s name in Carlo Guido Mor’s ''Storia dell'università di Modena'' (, several editions). and was also behind the construction of the then new building for the department, which opened officially during the 1974-75 academic year. Moreover he held the direction of the direction of the Atti del Seminario Matematico e Fisico dell'Università di Modena from 1977 up to 1983.

Research activity

He published more than 60 papers on differential equations, Fourier series and the series expansion of orthonormal functions, topology of varieties, real analysis, calculus of variations and the theory of functions.

Teaching activity

In 1961 he went from Palermo to Modena, teaching several mathematical analysis courses up to the year of his death.See for a complete list. gives a complete list of Emilio Baiada's doctoral students.

Honors

Baiada won the Michel prize for the best thesis in Pisa, and the 1940 Merlani prize of the Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna for "contributions on subjects of calculus of variations". During his stay in Palermo, from 1952 to 1961, he was elected corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Palermo.See . In 1967 he was elected corresponding member of the Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena.See , , , . The former references do not report the exact date of his election while the latter, particularly the last one (for obvious reasons) do. On June 9, 1976, he was awarded the Golden medal "Benemeriti della Scuola, della Cultura, dell'Arte" by the President of the Italian Republic.

Selected publications

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Notes

References

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*. The transcription of a 1984 letter written by Silvio Cinquini as an answer to a letter from Francesco Barbieri, aimed at a discussion of the contents of Laura Uccellari's Laurea thesis "Momenti e protagonisti degli studi matematici nella Facoltà di Scienze della nostra Università", pertains the study of mathematics at the University of Modena.
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*. The entry on Emilio Baiada in the official register of the prize.
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*. The short biography of Emilio Baiada included in Calogero Vinti's "Selected Works" section on the mathematicians who influenced his research.

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1914 births
1984 deaths
20th-century Italian mathematicians
Mathematical analysts
University of Pisa alumni
Academic staff of the University of Pisa
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa alumni