2023-11-28 19:33:07
The mathematician Alessandro Figà Talamanca, an international protagonist of research especially in mathematical analysis (LP spaces, Fourier series, stable random variables), died “peacefully in his sleep on the night of Monday 27 November” in Rome at the age of 85 . His wife Irene and his sons Giovanni, Niccolò and Lorenzo and their families announced it today. The funeral funeral of the professor emeritus of the “La Sapienza” University of Rome will be held on Wednesday 29 November, at 12 pm, at the Tempietto Egizio of the Roman cemetery of Verano.
Representative of Italian mathematics in the world, Figà Talamanca has also worked for a long time on the political-organizational aspects of mathematical research in Italy and the university system in general. After starting his academic career in the USA, from 1970 he was professor of mathematical analysis at the “Sapienza” in Rome, twice serving as director of the “Guido Castelnuovo” Department of Mathematics.
Figà Talamanca was president of the Italian Mathematical Union (1988-1993) and a long-time member of its scientific council; president of the National Institute of Higher Mathematics (1995-2003); vice president of the European Mathematical Society. He was part of the National Committee for Mathematical Sciences of the National Research Council, of the National University Council, of the National Committee for the Evaluation of the University System.
The main scientific results of Professor Alessandro Figà Talamanca concern convolutions in L_p spaces, random and lacunar Fourier series in non-commutative compact groups, harmonic analysis on free groups and homogeneous trees, diffusion processes and stable random variables and infinitely divisible into ultrametric topological groups.
Born in Rome on May 25, 1938, Figà Talamanca studied mathematics at “Sapienza” and at the University of California in Los Angeles where he obtained his PhD in mathematics in 1964 and also began his academic career in the same year. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston (1964-66), professor of mathematical analysis at the University of Genoa (1966-68), at the University of California at Berkeley (1968-69) and at Yale University (1969 -70). In November 1970 he became a full professor at the Roman University of “La Sapienza”. He has also been Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, Washington University and the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
The rector of the “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Antonella Polimeni, expressed, on her personal behalf and that of the entire university community, “deep condolences for the passing away of Alessandro Figà Talamanca, professor of mathematical analysis until 2008, later appointed professor emeritus”.
(by Paolo Martini)
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