Ernesto Laura (23 March 1879 – 29 December 1949) was an Italian mathematician born in Porto Maurizio.[1][2]
Ernesto Laura | |
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Born | |
Died | 29 December 1949 | (aged 60)
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater | University of Turin |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Biography
editHe graduated in mathematics in 1901 at the University of Turin, where he was a student of Morera and of Somigliana.
He taught rational mechanics at the Universities of Messina, Pavia and Padua.
Laura has dealt with uncommon elasticity problems, namely related to indefinitely extended elastic means and, especially in the last part of his University career, the mechanics of flexible and inextensible surfaces.
Notes
edit- ^ An Italian short biography of Ernesto Laura in Edizione Nazionale Mathematica Italiana online.
- ^ Tonolo, Angelo (1950), "Necrologio di Ernesto Laura" (PDF), Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, 3 (in Italian), 5 (3–4): 398–400
External links
edit- An Italian short biography of Ernesto Laura in Edizione Nazionale Mathematica Italiana online.