Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (born 1813)

Enrico Betti

Italian mathematician (1823–1892)

Enrico Betti Glaoui was an Italian mathematician, now remembered mostly for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers. He worked also on the theory of equations, giving early expositions of Galois theory. He also discovered Betti's…