Dionigi Galletto
Dionigi Galletto | |
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Born |
Monasterolo di Savigliano | 26 January 1932
Died |
25 September 2011 79) Torino | (aged
Nationality | Italian |
Fields |
Mathematics Mathematical physics |
Institutions | University of Turin |
Alma mater | University of Padua |
Doctoral advisor | Giuseppe Grioli |
Other academic advisors | Francesco Severi |
Doctoral students | Mauro Francaviglia |
Dionigi Galletto (26 January 1932 – 25 September 2011) was an Italian mathematician and academician.
He is known for his work on rigid body mechanics, on the mathematical theory of elasticity (including both linear elasticity and finite strain theory), on the history of mathematics and on extragalactic celestial mechanics and cosmology.
He was professor of mathematical physics at the University of Turin:[1] as such, he is considered to be the founder–reorganiser of the Mathematical physics school of Turin in the Post–Second World War period.[2] Among his students was Mauro Francaviglia.
Biography
He started his university studies in Rome as a student of Severi: however his studies were interrupted due to the military service, which led him to Padua.[3] There he graduated with honours in 1960 under Giuseppe Grioli’s guidance, with a thesis on the continuum theory with asymmetric stress: from 1961 to 1968 he worked in Padua as an associate professor,[3] holding also courses on differential geometry as a lecturer.[4]
In 1968, having won a competitive examination for a chair in rational mechanics, he was appointed extraordinary professor of rational mechanics at the University of Palermo:[5] there, Galletto held also courses of mathematical methods for physicists as a lecturer.[4] In 1970 he moved to the University of Turin, working at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences again as extraordinary professor of higher mechanics:[6] in 1971 he became full professor of mathematical physics, a position he held up to 2007, when he retired. Besides the course of mathematical physics, Galletto held various courses relating to the area of his scientific interest: for example he held courses on astronomy as a lecturer.[4] In 2008 he was appointed Emeritus professor.
Honors
He was corresponding member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino since 1974, and became national resident member in 1980.[7]
In 1979 he was elected corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena: successively he was elected effective member in 1984 and emeritus member in 2002.[4] He was also corresponding member of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.
Since 1990 he was corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and was elected national member in 1990.[8] In 1989, the same academy awarded him the "Prize of the Minister of Heritage and Cultural Activity" for his work in mathematics and mechanics.[9]
Work
Research activity
During his career, he published more than 150 papers in Italian and international journals.[3] The beginning of his scientific production was under Grioli’s scientific influence: Galletto worked on the topic of his laurea thesis, i.e. on the theory of continua having asymmetric stress characteristics. However, soon he followed his independent research path, with pioneering works that forerun the so called generalised continuum theory. In this theory, among other things, the stress tensor considered is no longer the Cauchy tensor or any similar, double symmetric tensor, but an asymmetric tensor that generalizes it: and this gives to the theory many further important structural peculiarities.
Selected publications
Research works
- Galletto, Dionigi (1963), "Intorno ad alcuni teoremi sulle matrici quadrate", Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, Serie 3 (in Italian) 18 (2): 94–100, MR 155840, Zbl 0122.25004.
- Galletto, Dionigi (1963), "Nuove forme per le equazioni in coordinate generali della statica dei continui con caratteristiche di tensione asimmetriche", Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa – Classe di Scienze, Serie III, (in Italian) 17 (4): 297–317, MR 166985, Zbl 0245.73002.
- Galletto, Dionigi (1965), "Contributo allo studio dei sistemi continui a trasformazioni reversibili con caratteristiche di tensione asimmetriche", Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (in Italian) 35 (2): 299–334, MR 189316, Zbl 0139.42403.
- Galletto, Dionigi (1966), "Sistemi incomprimibili a trasformazioni reversibili nel caso asimmetrico (Parte prima)", Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (in Italian) 36 (2): 243–276, Zbl 0146.21104.
- Galletto, Dionigi (1967), "Sistemi incomprimibili a trasformazioni reversibili nel caso asimmetrico (Parte seconda)", Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (in Italian) 37: 18–59, Zbl 0145.45202.
- Galletto, Dionigi (1967), "Sulla condizione di isotropia per i sistemi continui a trasformazioni reversibili", Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (in Italian) 37: 246–257, Zbl 0189.25203.
- Galletto, Dionigi (1968), "Sul vettore caratteristico della rotazione nei moti rigidi", Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (in Italian) 40: 205–218, MR 245878, Zbl 0258.70004.
- Galletto, Dionigi (1968), "Alcuni teoremi di cinematica dei sistemi rigidi", Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (in Italian) 40: 219–226, MR 245878.
- Galletto, Dionigi (1968), "Sulla potenza dello stress e sull'isotropia dei materiali iperelastici", Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (in Italian) 40: 227–236, MR 245878, Zbl 0179.55803.
- Galletto, Dionigi (1968), "Sui materiali iperelastici anisotropi", Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (in Italian) 40: 237–251, MR 245878, Zbl 0179.55804.
- Galletto, Dionigi (1968), "Sulla deduzione del vettore caratteristico della rotazione nei moti rigidi", Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (in Italian) 41: 198–209, MR 245878, Zbl 0194.56902.
- Galletto, Dionigi (1968), "Sull'energia complementare di deformazione per i materiali iperelastici", Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (in Italian) 41: 210–221, MR 245878, Zbl 0194.28503.
- Galletto, Dionigi (1982), "Premesse alla cosmologia razionale", Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (in Italian) 68: 295–324, MR 702162.
Biographical, commemorative and historical works
- Galletto, Dionigi (1982), "Il pensiero di Einstein nell'opera di Guido Fubini e Francesco Severi", Atti del convegno matematico in celebrazione della nascita di Guido Fubini e Francesco Severi. Torino, 8–10 Ottobre 1979, Atti dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino. I. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali 115 (Supplemento), Torino: Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, pp. 205–216, MR 0727498, Zbl 0553.01012.
- Galletto, Dionigi (2007), "Ricordo di Gaetano Fichera a dieci anni dalla morte", Atti Ufficiali dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (in Italian), 2004–2006: 135–142, available from the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino. "Recollection of Gaetano Fichera ten years after the death" is a commemoration of Gaetano Fichera.
- Galletto, Dionigi; Barberis, Bruno (2008), "Euler e Lagrange", Leonhard Euler nel terzo centenario della nascita, Quaderni (in Italian), n. 16, Torino: Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, ISBN 978-88-901608-2-9, ISSN 1125-0402.
- Galletto, Dionigi (2008), "Prolusione. Il "sistema del mondo" di Isaac Newton", Atti dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino – Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali (in Italian), Volume 142: 13–20.
Notes
- ↑ According to his member data available at the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino online.
- ↑ Franco Pastrone Commemorazione del Socio Dionigi Galletto (1932-2011) on YouTube.
- 1 2 3 According to the obituary (m.p.g. 2011).
- 1 2 3 4 According to his biography, as reported by Barbieri & Taddei (2006, p. 178).
- ↑ See (m.p.g. 2011) and (Barbieri & Taddei 2006, p. 178). (Barbieri & Taddei 2006, p. 178) report precisely that his position was "professore straordinario" of "meccanica razionale".
- ↑ Precisely, he was appointed as professor of "Meccanica superiore", according to (mpg 2011) and to Barbieri & Taddei (2006, p. 178) who report also his exact position.
- ↑ According to his member data, he was elected "Socio corrispondente" on March 13, 1974, and "Socio nazionale residente" on May 5, 1980.
- ↑ According to the Lincean yearbook (2012, p. 460), he was elected "membro corrispondente" on August 5, 1980, and "Membro nazionale" on December 6, 1990.
- ↑ Precisely, he was awarded the "Premio del Ministro per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali", according to the Lincean yearbook (2012, p. 153).
Biographical references
- Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (2013), Dionigi GALLETTO, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, retrieved 4 March 2014
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2012), Annuario dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 2012 – CDX dalla Sua Fondazione (PDF) (in Italian), Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, p. 734. The "Yearbook" of the renowned Italian scientific institution, including an historical sketch of its history, the list of all past and present members as well as a wealth of informations about its academic and scientific activities.
- Barbieri, Francesco; Taddei, Ferdinando (2006), L’Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena dalle origini (1683) al 2005. Tomo I – La storia e i soci (PDF) (in Italian), Modena: Mucchi Editore, p. 359, ISBN 88-7000-419-8. The first part ("Tomo") of an extensive work on the "Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena", reporting the history of the academy and biographies of members up to the year 2006.
- m.p.g. (6 October 2011), "Un uomo di grande umanità" (PDF), Corriere di Savigliano (in Italian), p. 28, retrieved 4 March 2014. "A man of great humanity" (English translation of the title) is a commemoration of Dionigi Galletto appeared on a local Savigliano newspaper.
References
- Truesdell, Clifford A. III (1991) [1977], A First Course in Rational Continuum Mechanics. Volume 1: General concepts, Pure and Applied Mathematics 71 (2nd ed.), Boston – San Diego – New York – London – Sidney – Tokyo – Toronto: Academic Press, pp. xviii+391, ISBN 0-12-701300-8, MR 1162744, Zbl 0866.73001.
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