Treccani History of Science

The second Scientific Revolution

I3 – Mathematics and logic

Part C - New developments in analysis
Edited by Umberto Bottazzini, Jeremy Grey
Measure theory
Maurice Sion
• 1. Measure and Lebesgue integral
• 2. The theory of functions
• 3. Applications and modern developments
The origins of functional analysis
Angus E. Taylor
• 1. Topological spaces and metric spaces
• 2. Linear spaces of functions
• 3. Hilbert spaces
• 4. Functional spaces, weak topology and compact operators
Calculus of variations
Craig Fraser, Mario Miranda
• 1. Sufficiency theory
• 2. Carathéodory theory.
• 3. Hilbert ‘direct’ method
• 4. Existence theorem and multiple-integral problems
• 5. The Hilbert-Haar theorem
• 6. Plateau-De Giorgi Problem
Ordinary differential equations
Jean Mawhin
• 1. Cauchy problem
• 2. Qualitative theory
• 3. Perturbation methods
• 4. Stability
• 5. Limit problems
• 6. Periodic solutions
Partial differential equations
Haïm Brezis, Felix Browder
• 1. The origins of the modern theory of partial differential equations and Poincaré’s work
• 2. Hilbert’s program
• 3. Bernètejn and the beginning of a priori estimates
• 4. Solvability linear elliptic equations of second order.
• 5. The theory of Leray-Schauder
• 6. Hadamard and the classification of PDEs and their boundary problems
• 7. Weak solutions
• 8. The theory of Schwartz distributions
• 9. Methods in Hilbert spaces
• 10. The maximum principle and applications; De Giorgi-Nash estimates
• 11. Nonlinear evolution equations, fluid flows and gas dynamics
• 12. Nonlinear PDE and nonlinear functional analysis
• 13. Calculation of PDE solutions, numerical analysis and computer science