Volterra, Vito

Volterra, Vito (1860-1940) was born in Ancona, Papal States (now Italy). His began working in mathematics at age 11, obtained a Doctor of Physics degree in 1882, and was then Professor of Mechanics and then Chair of Mathematical Physics. During World War 1 Volterra was in the Air Force and returned to Rome after the war. He denounced fascism and left Italy to live mainly in Paris. Some say his most famous work was on integral equations. 

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Vito Volterra, bom May 3, 1860, in Ancona, Papal States [Italy], died Oct. 11, 1940, in Rome. 

The second initiative born within academia became somewhat better known, and has received more attention. This initiative targeted the core of the system sketched above it was aimed at the Ministero della Guerra and, especially, the Sottosegretariato (Under-Secretariat), later the Ministero per le Armi e Munizioni (Ministry for Arms and Munitions). The promoter was Vito Volterra, a brilliant, well-known and well-travelled mathematician, a founding member and a leading personality of the Italian Society for the Advancement of Science (SIPS), a frequent nominator for the Nobel Prize in physics and, from 1905, a member of the Senate in Rome. ... 

Goodstein, Judith R. The Rise and Fall of Vito Volterra s World , Jourmd of the History of Ideas, 45 (4), (1984), 607-617. 

Pancaldi, Giuliano. Vito Volterra Cosmopolitan Ideals and Nationality in the Italian Scientific Community between the Belle Epoque and the First World War , Minerva, 31 (1), (1993), 21-37. 

Paoloni, Giovanni (ed.). Vito Volterra e il suo tempo (1860-1940) (Rome Accademia dei Lincei, 1990). 

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Autocatalysis is involved in the first two steps of this process. It appears that oscillating chemical reactions have mechanisms that are different from the Lotka-Volterra mechanism. This type of mechanism does occur in certain types of complex system such as predator-prey relationships in biology. It was in the biological context that the mechanism was investigated by the Italian mathematician Vito Volterra (1860-1940). 

This feedback-type behavior has been first considered in the domain of mathematics, with explicit targeting chemistry. In 1910, Alfred Lotka proposed some differential equations that corresponded to the kinetics of an autocatalytic chemical reaction, and then with Vito Volterra derived a differential equation that describes a general feedback mechanism (oscillations) known as the Lotka-Volterra model. However, chemistry has not been ready yet for this link. 

Vito Volterra (1860-1940), an Italian mathematician, and Alfred J. Lotka (1880-1949), an American mathematical biologist, formulated at about the same time the so-called Lotka-Volterra model of predator-prey population dynamics. The assumptions of this model are ... 

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