Eugenio Calabi
Eugenio Calabi
Born	1923 Italy
Nationality	United States
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania
Alma mater	MIT, Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Salomon Bochner
Known for	Calabi conjecture, work on differential geometry
Notable awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize (1991)

Eugenio Calabi (born 11 May 1923) is a Jewish 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 Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 1991 for his work in differential geometry. In 1994, Calabi assumed emeritus status.

His work on the Calabi conjecture for Kähler metrics led to the development of Calabi-Yau manifolds.

He has four grandchildren.

[edit] External links

• Eugenio Calabi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project