The letters of Eugenio Beltrami in the correspondence with Ernesto Cesàro
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The letters of Eugenio Beltrami in the correspondence with Ernesto Cesàro
zbMATH Open document ID: 0849.01015
DOI: 10.1007/BF00374702
author: Franco Palladino
author: R. Tazzioli
published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences
publication date: 1996-07-29T00:00:00Z
review text: The ``Fondo Cesàro'' is located in the University of Naples. It contains several correspondences, among these the Beltrami-Cesàro-correspondence: there are 17 letters from Beltrami to Cesàro, dating from 1883 to 1900, the year of Beltrami's death. During this period Beltrami was professor of mathematical physics in Pavia (since 1876) and in Rome (since 1891). In 1898, he also became President of the Accademia dei Lincei. Cesàro was professor of higher algebra in Palermo (since 1886/7) and of higher analysis in Naples (since 1891). Cesàro's interests not only were focused on mathematics but also they included mathematical physics. During the time of his correspondence with Beltrami he published several textbooks: a) Introduzione alla teoria matematica dell'elasticità (Torino 1894), b) Corso di analisi algebrica (Torino 1894), c) Lezioni di geometria intrinseca (Naples 1896) and d) Elementi di calcolo infinitesimale (Naples 1899). As far as the Beltrami-Cesàro correspondence is concerned, only the letters written by Beltrami have survived, they are published here for the first time. There are treated mainly scientific and academic questions, mostly problems of mathematical physics, as elasticity theory, Maxwell equations, and potential theory, and details of Cesàro's textbooks.
reviewed by: Karin Reich
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
zbMATH DE Number: 881714
zbMATH Keywords: elasticity theory
zbMATH Keywords: Maxwell equations
zbMATH Keywords: potential theory
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00374702
OpenAlex ID: W1964650842
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 881714