Enrico Giusti

Enrico Giusti was Professor of Mathematics at the University of L’Aquila, and later at the Universities of Trento, Pisa and Florence. He retired from teaching in 2010.

He has been visiting professor/scholar at several institutions, among which the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University,  the Institute for Advanced Study, the Australian National University, the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm, the Lomonosov University in Moscow, the Nankai Institute of Mathematics, the Max-Planck-Institut in Bonn, the University of Tokyo.

His scientific interests include  partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, and differential geometry; later he focused on the history of mathematics and more recently on the popularization of mathematics.

In 1999 he founded “Il Giardino di Archimede”, the first museum ever devoted entirely to mathematics.
He is the editor since its founding (1981) of theBollettino  di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche, the Italian journal for the history of mathematics, and is a member of the Editorial Board of several scientific journals.