Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7, 56126 Pisa PI, Italy
Bianchi entered the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa after passing a competitive examination in November 1873. He studied under Betti and Dini at the University of Pisa, from which he received his degree in mathematics on November 30, 1877.
Career
Achievements
Membership
Accademia dei Lincei
1887
Accademia dei Lincei, Palazzo Corsini, Via della Lungara 10, 00165 Rome, Italy
Luigi Bianchi received many honours including being made a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei in 1887 and a fellow of the Academy in 1893.
Russian Academy of Sciences
1911
Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 14, Moscow, Russia, 119991
From December 10, 1911, Luigi Bianchi served as a foreign corresponding member of the Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (now the Russian Academy of Sciences).
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
1924
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Theaterstraße 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
In 1924, Luigi Bianchi became a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7, 56126 Pisa PI, Italy
Bianchi entered the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa after passing a competitive examination in November 1873. He studied under Betti and Dini at the University of Pisa, from which he received his degree in mathematics on November 30, 1877.
Accademia dei Lincei, Palazzo Corsini, Via della Lungara 10, 00165 Rome, Italy
Luigi Bianchi received many honours including being made a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei in 1887 and a fellow of the Academy in 1893.
Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 14, Moscow, Russia, 119991
From December 10, 1911, Luigi Bianchi served as a foreign corresponding member of the Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (now the Russian Academy of Sciences).
Luigi Bianchi was an Italian mathematician, professor of analytic geometry at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and its director after 1918, and Senator of the Kingdom of Italy (now the Italian Republic).
Background
Luigi Bianchi was born on January 18, 1856, in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Kingdom of Italy (now Italy), the son of Francesco Saverio Bianchi. His father was a professor of law at the University of Parma, dean of the Faculty of Law, and afterwards mayor of Parma. Luigi also had a brother, Ferdinando.
Education
Bianchi entered the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa after passing a competitive examination in November 1873. He studied under Betti and Dini at the University of Pisa, from which he received his degree in mathematics on November 30, 1877.
Luigi Bianchi remained in Pisa for two additional years, pursuing postgraduate studies. Later he attended the universities of Munich and Göttingen, where he studied chiefly under Klein.
After his return to Italy in 1881, Luigi Bianchi was appointed to a professorship at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He taught differential geometry at the University of Pisa where he was promoted a number of times, first to extraordinary professor in differential geometry, then after a competitive examination to extraordinary professor in projective geometry in 1886. During the same year, he was also made professor of analytic geometry, a post he held for the rest of his life. By special appointment, Bianchi also taught higher mathematics and analysis. After 1918 he was director of the Scuola Normale Superiore. Also, Bianchi became Senator of the Kingdom of Italy (now the Italian Republic) in 1924.
Bianchi concentrated on studies and research in metric differential geometry. Among his major results was his discovery of all the geometries of Riemann that allow for a continuous group of movements, that is, those in which a figure may move continuously without undergoing any deformation. These results also found application in Einstein’s studies on relativity. In addition, Bianchi devoted himself to the study of non-Euclidean geometries and demonstrated how the study of these geometries may lead to results in Euclidean geometry that, through other means, might have been obtained by more complex methods.
A writer of clear and genial treatises, Bianchi wrote many works on mathematics, among which are some dealing with functions of a variable complex, elliptic functions, and continuous groups of transformations.
Luigi Bianchi died on June 6, 1928, in Pisa, Kingdom of Italy (now Italy), and was buried in Camposanto Monumentale di Pisa, Pisa.