Carlo Miranda

Carlo Miranda (1912 to 1982) was an Italian mathematician from Naples who worked on mathematical analysis, partial differential equations and complex analysis. He studied at the University of Naples under Mauro Picone, graduating in 1931, and followed Picone to Rome, where he worked at the National Institute for the Applications of the Calculus. He then held the chair of algebra and infinitesimal calculus at Genoa and a post at the Turin Polytechnic before returning to Naples in 1943. From 1944 to 1963 he directed the Institute of Mathematics there, rebuilding mathematics at the university after the Second World War alongside Renato Caccioppoli and building up its library. His 1955 monograph on partial differential equations of elliptic type was translated into Russian in 1957 and into English in 1970, and in 1940 he gave an elementary proof that Brouwer's fixed point theorem is equivalent to a special case of Kronecker's index theorem. He founded the journal Ricerche di Matematica in 1952, was elected to the Accademia dei Lincei in 1968, and a prize for young Italian analysts of elliptic equations was established in his name after his death.