Vito Volterra had a major impact on the development of calculus, and he originated the concept of a theory of functions. Perhaps his most famous work was on integral equations. Volterra was born to a poor cloth salesman on May 3, 1860 in Rome, Italy....

1860-1940 Italian mathematician whose most important work was in the area of integral equations. Volterra showed how some of the work of William Rowan Hamilton and Karl Jacobi could be extended from mechanics to other problems in mathematical physics....

Vito Volterra (May 3, 1860 - October 11, 1940) was an Italian mathematician and physicist, best known for his contributions to mathematical biology. Born in Ancona, then part of the Papal States, into a very poor Jewish family , Volterra showed early...

Volterra, Vito The Volterra Chronicles: The Life and Times of an Extraordinary Mathematician, 1860-1940. Judith R. Goldstein. Providence: American Mathematical Society, 2007. xxvi + 310 pp. $59.00. "The name Volterra is widely known today as half of the eponym Lotka-Volterra. The Lotka-Volterra...

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