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unusual facts about Vito Volterra


Volterra operator

In mathematics, in the area of functional analysis and operator theory, the Volterra operator, named after Vito Volterra, represents the operation of indefinite integration, viewed as a bounded linear operator on the space L2(0,1) of complex-valued square integrable functions on the interval (0,1).


G. I. Taylor

In 1934, Taylor, roughly contemporarily with Michael Polanyi and Egon Orowan, realised that the plastic deformation of ductile materials could be explained in terms of the theory of dislocations developed by Vito Volterra in 1905.


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