VOLTERRA, VITO.

Sur la stratification d'une masse fluide en équilibre.

Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Beijer, 1903. 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica. Hrdg. von G. Mittag-Leffler.", Bd. 27, pp. 105-124.

First printing of Volterra's paper on the distribution of pressure around spheres in a viscous fluid.

"Volterra’s scientific work covers the period from 1881, when he published his first papers, to 1940 when his last paper was published in the Acta of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. His most important contributions were in higher analysis, mathematical physics, celestial mechanics, the mathematical theory of elasticity, and mathematical biometrics. His major works in these fields included the foundation of the theory of functionals and the solution of the type of integral equations with variable limits that now bear his name, methods of integrating hyperbolic parctical differential equations, the study of hereditary phenomena, optics of birefringent media, the motion of the earth’s poles and elastic dislocations of multiconnected bodies, and, in his last years, placing the laws of biological fluctuations on mathematical bases and establishing principles of a demographic dynamics that preset analogies to the dynamics of material systems." (DSB).

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