Eugenio Calabi

Eugenio Calabi (born 11 May 1923) is a Italian American mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and their applications. Calabi was a Putnam Fellow as an undergraduate at MIT in 1946. In 1950 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, where his advisor was Salomon Bochner. He later obtained a professorship at the University of Minnesota. In 1964, Calabi joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Following the retirement of the great German-American mathematician Hans Rademacher, he was appointed to the Thomas A. Scott Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. He won the Steele...