Enea Bortolotti (28 September 1896 – 22 June 1942) was an Italian mathematician born in Rome.[1]

Enea Bortolotti
Born(1896-09-28)28 September 1896
Died22 June 1942(1942-06-22) (aged 45)
NationalityItalian
Alma materScuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Known forDifferential Geometry
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

Biography

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He graduated in mathematics in 1920 at the Universities of Pisa, where he was a student of Luigi Bianchi. He taught analytic and descriptive geometry at the Universities of Cagliari and Florence. He was mainly involved in differential geometry: it was a specialist in the theory of linear connections.[2][3]

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  1. ^ Bompiani, Enrico (1942), "Necrologio di Enea Bortolotti" [Obituary of Enea Bortolotti], Rend. Mat. Roma (in Italian), 3 (5): 231–240
  2. ^ An Italian short biography of Enea Bortolotti in MATEpristem online.
  3. ^ Bortolotti, Enea (1930), "On Parallelisms and Teleparallelisms in Curved Space", Journal of the London Mathematical Society, s1-5 (4): 242–248, doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-5.4.242
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