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Beppo Levi

Italian mathematician (–)

Beppo Levi (14 May – 28 August ) was an Italianmathematician. He published high-level academic articles and books on mathematics as well as on physics, history, philosophy, and pedagogy. Levi was a member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences and of the Accademia dei Lincei.

Biography template free There is a hint of an upper bound for the topics to be considered when Levi declines to give a proof of Stirling 's formula, "which would be beyond the theoretical limits we have set ourselves. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. In this earlier work all questions of continuity and infinite processes were avoided - or, rather, postponed to later sections of the treatise, which have not been printed. His early work studied singularities on algebraic curves and surfaces.

Early years

Beppo Levi was born on May 14, , in Turin, Italy to a Jewish family. He was an older brother of Eugenio Elia Levi. Levi obtained his laurea in mathematics in at age 21 from the University of Turin under Corrado Segre.[2] He was appointed an assistant professor at the University of Turin three months later and shortly thereafter became a full-time Scholar.

Levi was appointed Professor at the University of Piacenza in , at the University of Cagliari in , at the University of Parma in , and finally at the University of Bologna in The years that followed his last appointment saw the rise of Benito Mussolini's power and of antisemitism in Italy, and Levi, being Jewish, was soon expelled from his position at the University of Bologna.

He emigrated to Argentina, as did many other European Jews at that time.

Life in Argentina

Levi chose Argentina as a destination because of an invitation by the engineer Cortés Plá, dean of the Facultad de Ciencias Matemáticas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales Aplicadas a la Industria at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (currently Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario) in the city of Rosario.

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Cortés Plá invited Levi to come to Rosario to head the recently created Instituto de Matemática. It was there that Levi did most of his work from until his death in

While living in Rosario, Levi joined a group of mathematicians that included Luis Santaló, Simón Rubinstein, Juan Olguín, Enrique Ferrari, Fernando and Enrique Gaspar, Mario Castagnino and Edmundo Rofman.

In Levi founded Mathematicae Notae, the first mathematical journal in Argentina. In he was awarded the Feltrinelli Prize.

He died on August 28, , in Rosario, Argentina, and was buried in the Jewish cemetery there.

Mathematical contributions

His early work studied singularities on algebraic curves and surfaces.

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In particular, he supplied a proof (questioned by some) that a procedure for resolution of singularities on algebraic surfaces terminates in finitely many steps. Later he proved some foundational results concerning Lebesgue integration, including what is commonly known as Beppo Levi's lemma.

He also studied the arithmetic of elliptic curves.

He classified them up to isomorphism, not only over C, but also over Q. Next he studied what in modern terminology would be the subgroup of rational torsion points on an elliptic curve over Q: he proved that certain groups were realizable and that others were not. He essentially formulated the torsion conjecture for elliptic curves over the rational numbers, providing a complete list of possibilities should be, which was formulated independently by Andrew Ogg about 60 years later and finally proved by Barry Mazur in

References

Biographic and general references

  • Coen, Salvatore (), "Beppo Levi: una biografia", in Levi, Beppo (ed.), Opere (Collected Works).

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    Volume I: (in Italian), Bologna: Edizioni Cremonese (distributed by Unione Matematica Italiana), Zbl&#;. An ample biographical paper of nearly 40 pages, an earlier version of which was published as Coen, Salvatore (), "Beppo Levi: la vita", in Coen, Salvatore (ed.), Seminari di geometria, Università di Bologna, Italia, – (in Italian), Bologna: Università degli Studi di Bologna, Dipartimento di Matematica, pp.&#;–, MR&#;, Zbl&#;.

  • Viola, Tullio (), "Necrologio di Beppo Levi", Bollettino della Unione Matematica Italiana, Serie 3, 16 (4): –

References describing his scientific contributions

  • Levi, Beppo (), Opere di Beppo Levi – [Works of Beppo Levi –], vol.&#;1: –, Bologna: Edizioni Cremonese (distributed by Unione Matematica Italiana), Zbl&#;
  • &#;&#; (), Opere di Beppo Levi – [Works of Beppo Levi –], vol.&#;2: –, Bologna: Edizioni Cremonese (distributed by Unione Matematica Italiana), Zbl&#;.
  • Schappacher, Norbert; Schoof, René (), "Beppo Levi and the arithmetic of elliptic curves"(PDF), The Mathematical Intelligencer, 18 (1): 57–69, doi/bf, MR&#;, S2CID&#;, Zbl&#; For a freely downloadable offprint from the web site of one of the two authors, see here.

External links

Media related to Beppo Levi at Wikimedia Commons

  • Coen, Salvatore; Lanconelli, Ermanno, eds.

    (June 12–13, ), Convegno Italo – Argentino in onore di Beppo Levi (Italian – Argentinian meeting in honour of Beppo Levi), Bologna: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). The web site of a scientific meeting in Bologna, honouring the memory of Beppo Levi.

  • Guerraggio, Angelo; Nastasi, Pietro (–), "Beppo Levi (–)", Edizione Nazionale Mathematica Italiana (in Italian), Scuola Normale Superiore, retrieved January 18, (in Italian).

    Available from the Edizione Nazionale Mathematica Italiana.