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Vito Volterra

Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist1860 to 1940

Wikidata names Enrico Betti as doctoral advisor and lists 6 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Enrico Betti

Students on Wikidata6

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Cornelia Fabri
born 1869
stated by Wikidata
Pietro Ermenegildo Daniele
born 1875
stated by Wikidata
Paul Pierre Lévy
born 1886
stated by Wikidata
Joseph Pérès
born 1890
stated by Wikidata
Marcel Brelot
born 1903
stated by Wikidata
Robert Mazet
born 1903

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ulisse Dini

Taught4

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Cornelia Fabri
born 1869
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Filadelfo Insolera
born 1880
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
René Gateaux
born 1889
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Luigi Fantappiè
born 1901

The line above and below2 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataEnrico Betti
2 steps up
stated by WikidataGiuseppe Doveri

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 65 people: 65 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

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Sopra alcuni problemi di idrodinamica
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career7

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

until 1870
Lc Dante
studied
1870 to 1873
Liceo classico statale Galileo
studied
1878 to 1879
University of Pisa
studied
1879 to 1882
Scuola Normale Superiore
studied
1882 to 1893
University of Pisa
worked
1893 to 1900
University of Turin
worked
1900 to 1931
Sapienza University of Rome
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, physicist, university teacher, politician
fields: mathematical analysis, functional analysis
degrees: Doctor of Philosophy, 1882
awards: Order of Leopold, Royal Order of the Polar Star, Mathematical Prize of the Italian Academy of Sciences, 1887, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris, 1919, honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg, 1920, honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews, 1938, Fellow of the Royal Society, 1910, Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy‎, 1891
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1910, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, from 1936, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Royal Society of Edinburgh, from 1913, National Academy of Sciences, from 1911, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1895, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Romanian Academy, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1888 to 1899, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1899
notable works: Lotka–Volterra equations, Smith–Volterra–Cantor set, Volterra integral equation, Volterra series, Volterra operator, Volterra space, Volterra's function, Volterra lattice
Wikipedia: in 48 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere8

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaVito Volterra
stated by WikidataWikidataQ216812
stated by WikidataVIAF66503773
stated by WikidataGND11880572X
stated by WikidataIdRef029920272
stated by WikidataISNI0000000121372741

papers

stated by WikidataScopus24800978200

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project33908

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Vito Volterra: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
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  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Vito Volterra: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q216812