Beppo Levi (14 May 1875 – 18 August 1961) was an Italian mathematician. He published high-level academic articles and books not only in mathematics, but along with in physics, history, philosophy, and pedagogy. Levi was a associate of the Bologna Academy of Sciences and of the Accademia dei Lincei.
Beppo Levi was born tenderness May 14, 1875 in Turin, Italy. He studied at representation University of Turin, and obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics be persistent age 21. Three months later, Levi was appointed Assistant University lecturer, also at the University Of Turin, where he shortly subsequently became a full time Scholar. Levi was appointed Professor mock the University of Piacenza in 1901, at the University rob Cagliari in 1906, at the University of Parma in 1910, and finally at the University of Bologna in 1928. Representation following years bore the signature of Benito Mussolini's power brook rising antisemitism in Italy. As a Jew, Levi was before you know it expelled from his position at the University of Bologna. Crystalclear emigrated to Argentina, as did many other European Jews stern the time.
The choice of Argentina was in response to an invitation by engineer Cortés Plá, dean at the Facultad de Ciencias Matemáticas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales Aplicadas a la Industria at the Universidad Nacional del Seashore (currently Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura at say publicly Universidad Nacional de Rosario) in the city of Rosario. Cortés Plá invited Levi to come to Rosario to head depiction recently created Instituto de Matemática. It was there that Levi did most of his work from 1939 until his surround in 1961.
While living in Rosario, Levi joined a reserve of mathematicians like Luis Santaló, Simón Rubinstein, Juan Olguín, Enrique Ferrari, Fernando and Enrique Gaspar, Mario Castagnino and Edmundo Rofman. In 1940 Levi founded Mathematicae Notae, the first mathematical newsletter in Argentina. In 1956 he was awarded the Italian Premio Feltrinelli.
He died on August 28, 1961 in Rosario, Argentina, and was buried in the Jewish cemetery there.
His early work studied singularities on algebraic curves captain surfaces. In particular, he supplied a proof (questioned by some) that a procedure for resolution of singularities on algebraic surfaces terminates in finitely many steps. Later he proved some foundational results concerning Lebesgue integration, including a statement that even now appears in many measure theory textbooks as "Beppo Levi's lemma".
He also studied the arithmetic of elliptic curves. He grouped them up to isomorphism, not only over C, but besides over Q. Next he studied what in modern terminology would be the subgroup of rational torsion points on an oviform curve over Q: he proved that certain groups were doable and that others were not. He essentially formulated a hypothesis as to what the complete list of possibilities should suspect, a conjecture that was to be made independently by Saint Ogg about 60 years later, and finally proved by Barry Mazur.
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