Eugenio Calabi is a Italian American

Italian American

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 mathematician

Mathematician

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 and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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, specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and their applications.

Calabi was a Putnam Fellow

William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition

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 as an undergraduate at MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 in 1946. In 1950 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University

Princeton University

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, where his advisor was Salomon Bochner

Salomon Bochner

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. He later obtained a professorship at the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

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In 1964, Calabi joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

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