Vito Volterra was an Italian mathematician and physicist, born in Ancona in 1860 into a very poor Jewish family. He studied at the University of Pisa under the influence of Enrico Betti and became professor of rational mechanics there in 1883, then professor at Turin in 1892 and of mathematical physics at Rome in 1900. His theory of functionals led him to integral and integro-differential equations, and he is counted among the founders of functional analysis. After the First World War he applied mathematics to biology, developing the earlier work of Pierre François Verhulst on populations. He was an enthusiastic patriot and was named a senator of the Kingdom of Italy.
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3 May 1860
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He won the mathematics prize from the Accademia dei Lincei in 1895.
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