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Tullio Levi-Civita

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2008

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Tullio Levi-Civita, Honorary Member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, was born at Padua on March 29th, 1873, and died in Rome on December 29th, 1941.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1943

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page 19 note 1 I am indebted to Mr L. Roth for a few of the personal items appearing in this notice.

page 19 note 2 A complete list of his works to 1937 is given in Annuario della Pontificia Accademia delle Scienzè, I (1937), pp. 498511.Google Scholar

page 20 note 1 Rendiconti del R. Acc. dei Lincei, 10 (1901), 3Google Scholar. The enunciation of the theorem here given is taken from Whittaker, , Analytical Dynamics (3rd ed., 1927), p. 328.Google Scholar

page 20 note 2 Atti del R. Ist. Veneto, 74 (1915), 907.Google Scholar

page 20 note 3 American Journal of Math., 59 (1937), 9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 20 note 4 Ibid., p. 225. An earlier discussion of the relativistic 2-body problem appears in L'enseignement mathématique, 1935, p. 149.

page 21 note 1 Atti del R. Acc. dei Lincei, 18 (2) (1908), pp. 1, 413, 553Google Scholar; Atti del R. Ist. Veneto, 68 (1909), 557Google Scholar; Rendiconti del Circ. Math. di Palermo, 33 (1912), 354.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 21 note 2 An account of this is given by Milne-Thomson, L. M., Theoretical Hydrodynamics. (1938), p. 305.Google Scholar

page 21 note 3 Atti della Pont. Acc. Nuovi Lincei, LXXXIV. (1931), 332.Google Scholar

page 21 note 4 Bull. American Math. Soc. (1933), p. 535, in particular p. 546; see also Berliner Sitzb. (Phys.-Math.), 1933, p. 3.

page 21 note 5 Rendiconti del Circ. Math. di Palermo, 42 (1917), 173.Google Scholar