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A mathematician by vocation, Volterra graduated at the Scuola Normale in Pisa in 1882 and obtained the Chair of Rational Mechanics at the University of Pisa in 1883. Subsequently he held chairs at the Universities of Turin and Rome. He became a Senator in 1905, was President of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, of the Academia dei Lincei, Fellow of the Royal Society, etc. In 1931 he refused to take the required oath of loyalty to the Fascist government and was deprived of his Rome chair and forced to resign from all Italian scientific academies.
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Gandolfo, G. (2018). Volterra, Vito (1860–1940). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1291
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