Attilio Palatini
Attilio Palatini | |
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Born | |
Died | 24 August 1949 | (aged 59)
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater | University of Padua |
Known for | Palatini identity Calculus of variations Palatini variation |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Doctoral advisor | Tullio Levi-Civita |
Attilio Palatini (18 November 1889 – 24 August 1949) was an Italian mathematician born in Treviso.[1][2]
Biography[]
He graduated in mathematics in 1913 at the University of Padua, where he was a student of Ricci-Curbastro and of Levi-Civita.
He taught rational mechanics at the Universities of Messina, Parma and Pavia. He was mainly involved in absolute differential calculus and in general relativity. Within this latter subject he gave a sound generalization of the variational principle.
In 1919, Palatini wrote an important article where he proposed a new approach to the variational formulation of Einstein's gravitational field equations.[3] In the same paper, Palatini also showed that the variations of Christoffel symbols constitute the coordinate components of a tensor.
He wrote the "Rational Mechanics" and "Theory of relativity" entries for the Hoepli Encyclopedia of Elementary mathematics.
See also[]
Notes[]
- ^ An Italian short biography of Attilio Palatini in Edizione Nazionale Mathematica Italiana online.
- ^ Serini, Rocco (1949). "Necrologio di Attilio Palatini". Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana. 3 (in Italian). 4 (3): 334–335.
- ^ Palatini, Attilio (1919), "Deduzione invariantiva delle equazioni gravitazionali dal principio di Hamilton" [Invariant deduction of the gravitanional equations from the principle of Hamilton], Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, 1 (in Italian), 43: 203–212, doi:10.1007/BF03014670, S2CID 121043319
External links[]
Media related to Attilio Palatini at Wikimedia Commons
- Attilio Palatini at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- An Italian short biography of Attilio Palatini in Edizione Nazionale Mathematica Italiana online.
- 1889 births
- 1949 deaths
- Differential geometers
- Italian relativity theorists
- 19th-century Italian mathematicians
- 20th-century Italian mathematicians
- University of Padua alumni
- University of Pavia faculty
- University of Messina faculty
- University of Parma faculty