Emilio Bajada

Emilio Baiada (also known as Emilio Bajada); (12 January 1914 – 14 May 1984) was an Italian mathematician, working in mathematical analysis and the calculus of variation.

Education and career Baiada was born on 12 January 1914 in Tunis. He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he graduated with highest honors in June 1937 along with Leonida Tonelli, with whom he worked as an assistant from 1938 to 1941, when he left for the war. In 1945 he began to teach analysis, theory of functions, calculus and rational mechanics at the Scuola Normale. In 1948 he obtained a degree in Analysis; his Ph.D. thesis was written under the direction of Tonelli and Marston Morse.

In 1949 he went on leave from the University of Pisa and moved first to the University of Cincinnati, where he worked with scientists like Otto Szász and Charles Napoleon Moore, and then to Princeton University, where he worked with Morse. In 1952 he obtained the chair of analysis of the University of Palermo, where he taught until 1961 before transferring to the University of Modena. where he re-launched the Institute of Mathematics and developed its Library and Mathematical Seminar.

Work

Institutional work Baiada was one of the leading forces behind the reprise in mathematical studies in Modena in the postwar period. Teaching mathematical analysis in Modena from 1961, he promoted its 1966 dedication to Giuseppe Vitali, and was also behind the construction of the then new building for the department, which opened officially during the 1974–75 academic year. Moreover, he held the direction of the direction of the Atti del Seminario Matematico e Fisico dell'Università di Modena from 1977 up to 1983.

Research activity He published more than 60 papers on differential equations, Fourier series, series expansion of orthonormal functions, topology of varieties, real analysis, calculus of variations and on the theory of functions.

Teaching activity In 1961 he went from Palermo to Modena, teaching several mathematical analysis courses up to the year of his death. gives a complete list of Emilio Baiada's doctoral students.

Honors Baiada won the Michel prize for the best thesis in Pisa, In 1967 he was elected corresponding member of the Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena. On 9 June 1976, he was awarded the Golden medal "Benemeriti della Scuola, della Cultura, dell'Arte" by the President of the Italian Republic.

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