Libera Trevisani Levi-Civita

Libera Trevisani Levi-Civita (17 May 1890 – 11 December 1973) was an Italian mathematician born in Verona.[1]

Libera Trevisani Levi-Civita
Born(1890-05-17)17 May 1890
Verona
Died11 December 1973(1973-12-11) (aged 83)
Rome
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Padua
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorTullio Levi-Civita

Biography

She earned her classical lyceum A levels in 1908 at the "Bernardino Telesio" Lyceum in Cosenza then, in the 1908–1909 academic year, she matriculated at the University of Padova.[2]

In 1912, she graduated at the University of Padova, under the scientific guide of the mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita, with a thesis titled "About the average motion within the three body problem". This thesis extended Levi-Civita's researches on the average asymptotic motion existence, for a point represented by the generic solution of a linear system with periodic coefficients, to the problem of the three bodies, whenever this is referred to the moon theory. The results achieved by Mrs Trevisani were so satisfactory that her mentor decided to present them to 28 April 1912 meeting at the Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti (Veneto's Institute of sciences, letters and arts). The note was published in the «Atti» (Records) in the same year.[3]

In April 1914, the young Libera Trevisani became the wife of her mentor Tullio Levi-Civita.

In 1944 she was elected president of the reinstated FILDIS (Federazione Italiana Laureate e Diplomate di Istituti Superiori – Federation of Italian Graduated Women in Higher Education)[4] which had been dissolved in 1935 by the fascist regime. She remained in office until 1953 and carried on institutional initiatives aimed at the empowerment of women and the protection of women's rights. In 1945 Libera took Susanna Silberstein away from the Florentine convent where her parents had placed her just before they were rounded up by the Nazis and later she adopted her.[5]

Notes
  1. An Italian biography of Libera Trevisani Levi-Civita
  2. Archivio storico dell’Università di Padova, Registro della carriera scolastica, "Libera Trevisani".
  3. Sul moto medio dei nodi nel problema dei tre corpi, «Atti dell'Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti», LXXI, 1912, pp. 1089–1137.
  4. "F.I.L.D.I.S." Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  5. Goodstein, Judith R. (2018). Einstein’s Italian mathematicians : Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the birth of general relativity. American Mathematical Society. p. 131. ISBN 978-1470428464.
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