Ettore Bortolotti

Ettore Bortolotti
Born (1866-03-06)6 March 1866
Bologna
Died 17 February 1947(1947-02-17) (aged 80)
Bologna
Nationality Italian
Fields Mathematics
Alma mater University of Bologna
Doctoral advisor Salvatore Pincherle

Ettore Bortolotti (6 March 1866 – 17 February 1947) was an Italian mathematician.[1]

Biography

Bortolotti was born in Bologna. He studied mathematics under Salvatore Pincherle and Cesare Arzelà in Bologna. He graduated in mathematics in 1889 at the University of Bologna, under Pincherle. He was appointed as lecturer to the Lyceum of Modica in Sicily in 1891, then studied one year in Paris as a post-graduate, before lecturing at the University of Rome in 1893.

In 1900, he became professor for infinitesimal calculus at Modena. There, he became dean from 1913 to 1919, then moved back to the University of Bologna, where he retired in 1936.

Bortolotti must also be considered a differential geometer and a relativist too. In fact, in the year 1929, he commented on the geometric basis for Einstein’s absolute parallelism theory in a paper entitled "Stars of congruences and absolute parallelism: Geometric basis for a recent theory of Einstein".[2][3]

Bortolotti died in Bologna.

Selected works

Notes

  1. An Italian short biography of Ettore Bortolotti in Edizione Nazionale Mathematica Italiana online.
  2. E. Bortolotti, Stelle di congruenze e parallelismo assoluto: basi geometriche di una recente teoria di Einstein, Rend. Reale Acc. dei Lincei 9 (1929), 530-538.
  3. E. Bortolotti, On metric connections with absolute parallelism, Proc. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam 30 (1927), 216-218.

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