Luigi Amoroso
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Luigi Amoroso was an Italian
Italy
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 neoclassical economist influenced by Vilfredo Pareto
Vilfredo Pareto
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto , born Wilfried Fritz Pareto, was an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist and philosopher. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices....

. He provided support for and influenced the economic policy during the fascist regime. The microeconomical concept of the Amoroso-Robinson relation is named after him (and Joan Robinson
Joan Robinson
Joan Violet Robinson FBA was a post-Keynesian economist who was well known for her knowledge of monetary economics and wide-ranging contributions to economic theory...

): according to paper he is one of the first economist
Economist
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s to study the dynamical equilibrium theory, using an analogy between economic system
Economic system
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s and classical mechanics
Classical mechanics
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 and thus applying to theories of economical behaviour mathematical tools as the calculus of variation. In his young years he contributed to the theory of functions of several complex variables
Several complex variables
The theory of functions of several complex variables is the branch of mathematics dealing with functionson the space Cn of n-tuples of complex numbers...

, giving for the first time a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the Dirichlet problem
Dirichlet problem
In mathematics, a Dirichlet problem is the problem of finding a function which solves a specified partial differential equation in the interior of a given region that takes prescribed values on the boundary of the region....

 for holomorphic functions of several variables in the paper . Also, in 1927 he provided to his former Normale schoolfellow Mauro Picone
Mauro Picone
Mauro Picone was an Italian mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, for the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem and for being the founder of the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, presently named after him...

 the funding for the creation of the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, now called Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone" by means of a local bank.

See also

  • Amoroso-Robinson relation
  • CR-function
  • Vilfredo Pareto
    Vilfredo Pareto
    Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto , born Wilfried Fritz Pareto, was an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist and philosopher. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices....

  • Mauro Picone
    Mauro Picone
    Mauro Picone was an Italian mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, for the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem and for being the founder of the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, presently named after him...

  • Joan Robinson
    Joan Robinson
    Joan Violet Robinson FBA was a post-Keynesian economist who was well known for her knowledge of monetary economics and wide-ranging contributions to economic theory...

  • Several complex variables
    Several complex variables
    The theory of functions of several complex variables is the branch of mathematics dealing with functionson the space Cn of n-tuples of complex numbers...

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