Eugenio Beltrami
Mathematician, Academic
1835 – 1900
Who was Eugenio Beltrami?
Eugenio Beltrami was an Italian mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition. He was the first to prove consistency of non-Euclidean geometry by modeling it on a surface of constant curvature, the pseudosphere, and in the interior of an n-dimensional unit sphere, the so-called Beltrami–Klein model. He also developed singular value decomposition for matrices, which has been subsequently rediscovered several times. Beltrami's use of differential calculus for problems of mathematical physics indirectly influenced development of tensor calculus by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita.
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- Born
- Nov 16, 1835
Cremona - Nationality
- Italy
- Profession
- Education
- University of Pavia
- Employment
- University of Pisa
- University of Bologna
- Lived in
- Cremona
- Italy
- Died
- Feb 18, 1900
Rome
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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