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Enrico Betti
1823 – 1892
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryEnrico Betti Glaoui was an Italian mathematician, now remembered mostly for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers. He worked also on the theory of equations, giving early expositions of Galois theory. He also discovered Betti's theorem, a result in the theory of elasticity.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
October 21, 1823
Pistoia
Date of death
August 11, 1892
Soiana
Citizenship
Kingdom of Italy
Occupations & fields
mathematiciantopologistphysicistuniversity teacherpolitician
Notable works
Betti numberBetti's theorem
- Field and occupation
- italský matematik
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