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Franco Giannessi: “Every Mathematician Can do a True Theorem. Only a Genius Can Make an Important Mistake”

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  • 06 May 2021

    In page 2, the three sentences, related to Scorza-Dragoni, Baldassarri and Volpato are listed in the alphabetic order of the family names (namely, Baldassarri, Scorza-Dragoni, Volpato). In page 12, line 7, the term `approach' is replaced with `analysis'

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  1. Professor in Geometry at the University of Pisa, known for his paper: Calcolo delle Matrici, by Salvatore Cherubino, Amer. Math. Monthly 65 (8)(1958), 638.

  2. A former student of Leonida Tonelli. He was Rector of the University of Pisa, as well as President of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.

  3. Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pisa and an expert on the theory of regularity for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations.

  4. Professor at the University of Naples Federico II and an expert on Algebraic Geometry.

  5. Professor at the University of Naples Federico II and an expert on Calculus of Variation and of the theory of Critical Points.

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  1. XLIM UMR-CNRS 7252, Université de Limoges, Limoges, France and Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimisation, Federation University, Ballarat, Australia

    Michel Théra

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Dedicated to Professor Franco Giannessi on the occasion of his 85th birthday.

Research supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) grant DP160100854.

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Théra, M. Franco Giannessi: “Every Mathematician Can do a True Theorem. Only a Genius Can Make an Important Mistake”. J Optim Theory Appl 193, 5–20 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-021-01857-4

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