Ettore Bortolotti | |
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| Born | 6 March 1866 |
| Died | 17 February 1947 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Alma mater | University of Bologna |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Salvatore Pincherle |
Ettore Bortolotti (6 March 1866 – 17 February 1947) was an Italian mathematician.[1]
Bortolotti was born in Bologna. He studied mathematics under Salvatore Pincherle and Cesare Arzelà in Bologna. He graduated in mathematics in 1889 at the University of Bologna, under Pincherle. He was appointed as lecturer to the Lyceum of Modica in Sicily in 1891, then studied one year in Paris as a post-graduate, before lecturing at the University of Rome in 1893.
In 1900, he became professor for infinitesimal calculus at Modena. There, he became dean from 1913 to 1919, then moved back to the University of Bologna, where he retired in 1936.
He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1924 in Toronto[2] and in 1928 in Bologna.
Bortolotti must also be considered a differential geometer and a relativist too. In fact, in the year 1929, he commented on the geometric basis for Einstein’s absolute parallelism theory in a paper entitled "Stars of congruences and absolute parallelism: Geometric basis for a recent theory of Einstein".[3][4]
His son Enea was a mathematician too. Bortolotti died in Bologna.
