Eugenio Calabi (born 1923) is an Italian-American mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and their applications. Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. An Italian American is an American of Italian descent and/or dual citizenship A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics. The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that uses the methods of differential and integral Calculus to study problems in Geometry In Mathematics, partial differential equations ( PDE) are a type of Differential equation, i
Calabi was a Putnam Fellow as an undergraduate at MIT in 1946. The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, often abbreviated to the Putnam Competition, is an annual mathematics competition for Undergraduate Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 1950 he received his Ph. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. D. from Princeton University, where his advisor was Salomon Bochner. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. Salomon Bochner ( 20 August 1899 &ndash 2 May 1982) was an American Mathematician of Austrian-Hungarian He later obtained a professorship at the University of Minnesota. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities ( U of M or The U) is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system.
In 1964, Calabi joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Following the retirement of the great German-American mathematician Hans Rademacher, he was appointed to the Thomas A. Hans Adolph Rademacher (3 April 1892 Wandsbeck now Hamburg-Wandsbek – 7 February 1969 Haverford, Pennsylvania USA was a German Mathematician Scott Chair of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. He won the Steele Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 1991 for his work in differential geometry. The Leroy P Steele Prizes are awarded every year by the American Mathematical Society, for distinguished research work and writing in the field of Mathematics. The American Mathematical Society (AMS is an association of professional Mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship which Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. In 1994, Calabi assumed emeritus status.
His work on the Calabi conjecture for Kähler metrics led to the development of Calabi-Yau manifolds. In Mathematics, the Calabi conjecture is a Conjecture about the existence of good metrics on Complex manifolds made by Calabi in about In Mathematics, a Kähler manifold is a Manifold with unitary structure (a ''U''(''n''-structure) satisfying an Integrability condition In mathematics Calabi&ndashYau manifolds are compact Kähler manifolds whose Canonical bundle is trivial