Giuseppe Da Prato
Da Prato in 1976
Born	(1936-07-23)23 July 1936 La Spezia, Italy
Died	6 October 2023(2023-10-06) (aged 87) Pisa, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Education	Sapienza University of Rome
Occupation(s)	Professor Mathematician

Giuseppe Da Prato (23 July 1936 – 6 October 2023) was an Italian academic and mathematician.^[1] He taught at the elite Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. He mainly researched stochastic calculus, partial differential equations, and control theory.^[2]

Biography

Born in La Spezia on 23 July 1936, Da Prato earned his doctorate at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1960 under the direction of Marcello Cini [it]. In 1963, he became an assistant professor at the University of Pisa. He became a professor at the Sapienza in 1968 and won the Bartolozzi Prize the following year. He remained at the Sapienza until 1977, during which time he was also a guest professor at the Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis in France.^{[citation needed]} He worked at the University of Trento from 1977 to 1979, and subsequently joined the Scuola Normale Superiore, where he stayed for nearly 30 years. He was also a guest professor at the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States from 1981 to 1982.^{[citation needed]}

Da Prato served on the editorial board of numerous mathematical journals. He also co-founded the journal Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications.

Giuseppe Da Prato died on 6 October 2023, at the age of 87.^[3]

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