Vito Volterra

Guerraggio, Angelo; Paoloni, Giovanni

doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-0081-5

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“…Blaserna had also established a special cabinet for the teaching of mathematical physics, which from 1891 was directed by Eugenio Beltrami (1835Beltrami ( -1900 and then from 1900 by Vito Volterra, who therefore left his analogous position at the University of Turin. The arrival of the latter, an excellent pupil of the Scuola Normale and a man of exceptional foresight and political-organizational skills, gave further impetus to mathematical physics in the capital of young Italy [Guerraggio, Paoloni 2008]. In 1899 Blaserna managed to create at his institute a second chair of physics, aimed at introducing prospective future researchers to the advanced topics that were not included in the general course of experimental physics, addressed as it was to a wide audience of students of physics, mathematics, chemistry, natural sciences and medicine.…”

Section: Pietro Blaserna and The New Physics Institute In Romementioning

confidence: 99%

Masters and students in Italian Physics between the 19th and 20th centuries: the Felici-Bartoli-Stracciati-Corbino case

Battimelli

Rana

Rossi

2020

EPJ H

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In the second half of the 19th century, a special practice of research and training in physics took shape in Pisa, characterized by a particular attention to theoretical studies and to combining experimental activity with a profound mastery of mathematical tools. This peculiar approach, started by Carlo Matteucci and Ottaviano Mossotti, continued and spread by Riccardo Felici, Enrico Betti, Adolfo Bartoli and Vito Volterra, was quite an exception in the framework generally marked by strict experimentalism and positivist empiricism of the Italian physics cabinets of the time. The present paper highlights a special path connecting this tradition of the Pisan school to the scientific environment that was formed in the early years of the 20th century at the Royal Physical Institute in via Panisperna in Rome, through the interaction of Orso Mario Corbino with Volterra on one side, and the imprinting left on Corbino by Adolfo Bartoli and his student and collaborator Enrico Stracciati.

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Section: Pietro Blaserna and The New Physics Institute In Romementioning

confidence: 99%

Masters and students in Italian Physics between the 19th and 20th centuries: the Felici-Bartoli-Stracciati-Corbino case

Battimelli

Rana

Rossi

2020

EPJ H

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“…For further reading about "big data", see [10], [11], [13]; about the history and pioneers of models and their theory, see [2], [6], [7], [8], [9], [25]; about the feasibility of predictions and forecasting, see [4], [5], [18], [26].…”

Section: How Do We Construct a Model?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Data science and the art of modelling

Hosni

Vulpiani

2018

Lett Mat Int

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Datacentric enthusiasm is growing strong across a variety of domains. Whilst data science asks unquestionably exciting scientific questions, we argue that its contributions should not be extrapolated from the scientific context in which they originate. In particular we suggest that the simple-minded idea to the effect that data can be seen as a replacement for scientific modelling is not tenable. By recalling some well-known examples from dynamical systems we conclude that data science performs at its best when coupled with the subtle art of modelling.

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“…He has been the subject of numerous technical scientific biographies in Italian (see e.g. [23]) and one recent major biography concentrating on his human relationships [24] in English. This article concentrates on his foundational work in dislocations, but he was mathematician of many parts.…”

Section: Volterra and Italian Mathematicsmentioning

confidence: 99%