Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi

Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica "Francesco Severi"

INdAM
Established 1939
Key people Francesco Severi
Formerly called Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica
Location Rome, Italy
Address Piazzale Aldo Moro 5,
Roma
Website http://www.altamatematica.it/

The Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi, abbreviated as INdAM, is a government created non-profit research institution whose principal purpose is to promote research in the field of mathematics and its applications and the diffusion of higher mathematical education in Italy.[1] Its founder and first president, later nominated life president,[2] was Francesco Severi, who exerted also a major influence on the creation of the institute.[3]

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Notes

  1. See the Italian law (La Camera dei Deputati & Il Senato della Repubblica 1992) and its later amendment (Il Presidente della Repubblica 1999).
  2. See Roghi (2005, p. 46).
  3. According to De Concini (2005, p. VII) and Zappa (1984, p. 12), who clearly states:-"Proprio in quell'anno 1939–1940, Severi aveva costituito l'Istituto di Alta Matematica" ("Just in that year 1939–1940, Severi constituted the Istituto di Alta Matematica").

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Historical references

  • De Concini, Corrado (December 2005), "Prefazione", in Roghi, G., Materiale per una storia dell'Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica dal 1939 to 2003., Bollettino della Unione Matematica Italiana, Sezione A, La Matematica nella Società e nella Cultura, Serie VIII (in Italian) 8–A (3, parte 2), pp. VII–VIII, MR 2225078, Zbl 1089.01500 .
  • Roghi, G. (December 2005), "Materiale per una storia dell'Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica dal 1939 to 2003.", Bollettino della Unione Matematica Italiana, Sezione A, La Matematica nella Società e nella Cultura, Serie VIII (in Italian) 8–A (3, parte 2): X+301, MR 2225078, Zbl 1089.01500 . This is a monographic fascicle published on the "Bollettino della Unione Matematica Italiana", describing the history of the "Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi" from its foundation in 1939 to 2003: an English translation of the title reads as:-"Materials toward a history of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica from 1939 to 2003". It was written by Gino Roghi and includes a presentation by Salvatore Coen and a preface by Corrado De Concini. It is almost exclusively based on sources from the institute archives: the wealth and variety of materials included, jointly with its appendices and indexes, make this monograph a useful reference not only for the history of the institute itself, but also for the history of many mathematicians who taught or followed the institute courses or simply worked there.
  • Zappa, Guido (1984), "La scuola matematica di Francesco Severi intorno al 1940", Rivista di Matematica della Università di Parma, (4) (in Italian), 10*: 11–14, MR 0777309, Zbl 0562.01015 . The English translation of the title of this work is:-"The mathematical school of Francesco Severi around 1940". It describes the research activity at the Sapienza University of Rome and at the (at that time newly created) "Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi" from the end of the thirties to the early forties of the 20th century.

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