Alessandro Faedo

Alessandro Faedo
Born	(1913-11-18)18 November 1913 Chiampo, Vicenza
Died	16 June 2001(2001-06-16) (aged 87) Pisa
Alma mater	Università di Pisa
Known for	Faedo–Galerkin method
Scientific career
Fields	Numerical analysis Mathematical analysis
Institutions	Università di Pisa
Doctoral advisor	Leonida Tonelli

Alessandro Faedo (18 November 1913 – 16 June 2001) (also known as Alessandro Carlo Faedo or Sandro Faedo) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university.

Selected publications

Scientific works

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Historical, commemorative and survey works

• . A survey on the early uses and on the development of electronic computers in Italy.
• . A survey of the work of Tonelli in Pisa and his influence on the development of the school, presented in Rome on 6–9 May 1985.
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• , is a brief commemorative historical paper describing the events which led Ennio De Giorgi to hold a chair at the Scuola Normale Superiore.

See also

• Calculus of variation
• Fichera's existence principle
• Variational method
• Ritz method

References

Biographical and general references

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• . A brief biographical chapter on Alessandro Faedo published in the book celebrating the first 90th years of the CNR.
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• . A short commemoration of Alessandro Faedo written by Giorgio Letta for the Notiziario UMI and published online on the old web site of the Unione Matematica Italiana, preserved in its original form by the Internet Archive, also available here from the University Library Service of the University of Pisa and as .
• . The inaugural address given by Mario Miranda during the official 2005 meeting of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.
• is a short obituary notice published few months after the death of Alessandro Faedo.
• . A short commemoration of Alessandro Faedo, cured by the editorial board of the "Architetture Pisane" architecture journal. It was published in a special issue on the Collegio Faedo, the university college named after him in Pisa, and reissued in book form.
• . A commemorative paper focusing mainly on Faedo's results in mathematics, while sketching only briefly his work as a research organizer and as a teacher.
• . The commemoration of Alessandro Faedo held at the Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza on the 25th of February 2002, during the meeting dedicated to his remembrance.
• . A paper describing the historical development of the scientific faculties at the University of Pisa.

Scientific references

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Publications and conferences and dedicated to Alessandro Faedo

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