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Vito Volterra
He was born in Ancona on 3rd May 1860, and died in Rome on 11th October 1940. He started his university studies at the faculty mathematic and natural sciences of Florence university. Volterra moved to Pisa University in 1878 where he graduated in Physics in 1882 and in 1883 he became professor of Theoretic Mechanics.
In 1892 Volterra moved to the University of Turin and in 1900 he was called by the university of Rome to teach Mathematic Physics up to 1931.
He was senator of the Kingdom since 1905, Royal Commissioner of the Politecnico in 1906, and he settled the Italian Society of Physics and the present National Council of Researches. From 1921 to his death he was president of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures.
When the Fascism arrived he took an opposing behaviour since the beginning. As he refused to swear loyalty to the Fascist Government in 1931 he was deprived of his chair and in 1935 he was expelled by all Italian education bodies. The racist laws compelled him to leave his countryhome. He lived long in France and returned to Italy in 1939.
Volterra was one of the major Italian contemporary mathematicians, known for his works on integer equations, several problems of analysis and of mathematic physics, the theory of luminous vibrations in bi-refracting media, on elastic bodies and the problem of three bodies.
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