Eugenio Beltrami belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Eugenio Beltrami as Italian mathematician (1835–1900).
Eugenio Beltrami was born at Cremona in 1835. His recorded nationality is Italy. He studied at University of Pavia.
The nineteenth century made mathematics rigorous: definitions were tightened, foundations questioned, and whole fields created from scratch.
His academic posts were held at University of Bologna, University of Pisa and University of Bologna.
The recorded fields of work are differential geometry, mathematics and physics.
Among his principal contributions are Teoria fondamentale degli spazii di curvatura costante, Di un sistema di formole per lo studio delle linee e delle superficie ortogonali and Beltrami's theorem. Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
Recognition followed: grand officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus and Mathematical Prize of the Italian Academy of Sciences (1875).
That the work was done from Italy matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Eugenio Beltrami died in 1900, aged 65. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- grand officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy
- Officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
- Mathematical Prize of the Italian Academy of Sciences — 1875
- Notable work: Teoria fondamentale degli spazii di curvatura costante
- Notable work: Di un sistema di formole per lo studio delle linee e delle superficie ortogonali
- Notable work: Beltrami's theorem
- Notable work: Beltrami–Enneper theorem
- Held posts at University of Bologna, University of Pisa and University of Bologna
- Fields: differential geometry, mathematics and physics
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