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During the first decades of the last century Italian mathematics was considered to be the third national school due to its importance and the high level of its numerous - searchers. The decision to organize the 1908 International Congress of Mathematicians in Rome (after those in Paris and Heidelberg) confirmed this position. Qualified Italian universities were permanently included in the tour organized for young mathematicians improvement. Even in the years after the First World War, Rome (together with Paris and Gottingen) remained an important mathematical center according to the American...

Der Mathematiker Vito Volterra (1860 1940) war nicht nur ein grosser Mathematiker, sondern auch ein guter Wissenschaftsorganisator. Uber Jahrzehnte galt er als der bedeutendste Reprasentant der Wissenschaft in Italien. Die Autoren rekonstruieren seine wichtigsten Beitrage zur Wissenschaft und zur Entwicklung der wissenschaftlichen Institutionen in Italien und der Welt: von der Entwicklung der Funktionalanalysis uber die Untersuchung der Populationsdynamik bis zu seiner Lehrtatigkeit und der Grundung des staatlichen italienischen Forschungsrates."

Vito Volterra (1860-1940) was one of the most famous representatives of Italian science in his day. Angelo Guerragio and Giovanni Paolini analyze Volterra s most important contributions to mathematics and their applications, as well as his outstanding organizational achievements in scientific policy. Volterra was one of the founding fathers of functional analysis and the author of fundamental contributions in the field of integral equations, elasticity theory and population dynamics (Lotka-Volterra model). He delivered keynote lectures on the occasion of the International Congresses of...