Guido Stampacchia

Guido Stampacchia (26 March 1922 – 27 April 1978) was an Italian mathematician, known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.

Life and academic career Stampacchia was born in Naples, Italy, to Emanuele Stampacchia and Giulia Campagnano. He obtained his high school certification from the Liceo-Ginnasio Giambattista Vico in Naples in classical subjects, although he showed a stronger aptitude for mathematics and physics. In 1949 he was appointed as assistant with tenure to the chair of mathematical analysis, and in 1951 he obtained his "Libera docenza". In 1952 won a national competition for the chair at the University of Palermo. He was nominated Professor on Probation at the University of Genoa later the same year and was promoted to full Professor in 1955.

He married fellow student Sara Naldini in October 1948. Children Mauro, Renata, Giulia, and Franca were born in 1949, 1951, 1955 and 1956 respectively. He was also director of the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche from December 1968 to 1974.

Stampacchia accepted the position of Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the University of Rome in 1968 and returned to the University of Pise in 1970 and subsequently with the chair of Higher Analysis at the Scuola Normale Superiore. In early 1978 he suffered a serious heart attack and died of heart arrest on 27 April that year while he was in Paris as a Visiting Professor.

Selected works . with Sergio Campanato, Sulle maggiorazioni in Lp nella teoria delle equazioni ellittiche, Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1965. with Jaurès Cecconi, Lezioni di analisi matematica, I: Funzioni di una variabile, Naples: Liguori editore, 1974, with Jaurès Cecconi, Lezioni di analisi matematica, II: Funzioni di più variabili, Naples: Liguori, 1980, with Jaurès Cecconi and Livio Clemente Piccinini, Esercizi e problemi di analisi matematica, Naples: Liguori, 1996, , , translated in English as . with David Kinderlehrer: An introduction to variational inequalities and their applications, NY, Academic Press, 1980 Reprint: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2000