the conferment of the laurea honoris causa in civil engineering: he describes the history of the theory of elasticity particularly detailing the contributions of Italian mathematicians and engineers. . . In the paper "The contributions of Guido Fubini and Francesco Severi to the theory of functions of several complex variables" (English translation of the title), Gaetano Fichera describes the main contributions of the two scientists to the Cauchy and the Dirichlet problem for holomorphic functions of several complex variables, as well as the impact of their work on subsequent researches. . "The Severi an Severi–Kneser theorems for analytic functions of several complex variables and their further developments" (English translation of the title) is an historical survey paper on the Cauchy and the Dirichlet problem for holomorphic functions of several complex variables, updating the earlier work . . Some recollections of his close friend Renato Caccioppoli. . A survey paper describing the development of infinitesimal calculus during the twentieth century and trying to trace possible scenarios for its future evolution. . Fichera's "last lesson" of the course of higher analysis, given on the occasion of his retirement from university teaching in 1992. . The birth of the theory of variational inequalities remembered thirty years later (English translation of the title) tell the story of the beginning of the theory of variational inequalities from the point of view of its founder. . "Revisiting and history: two conflicting aspects of scientific historiography" details its author's opinions about the way of doing historical researches on mathematical topics. . . Gaetano Fichera's "Historical, biographical, expository works": a volume collecting his contributions in the original language (English or Italian) to the fields of history of mathematics and scientific expository work. Monographs and textbooks : for a review of the book, see . . A monograph based on the lecture notes, taken by Lucilla Bassotti and Luciano De Vito of a course held by Gaetano Fichera at the INdAM: for a review of the book, see . . An extensive survey on some results of numerical analysis (especially on numerical calculation of eigenvalues) and associated results of mathematical analysis obtained by Gaetano Fichera and his school: its updated English translation is the book . . An English updated translation of the memoir . . See also Constitutive equations Fichera corner problem Mauro Picone Potential theory Saint-Venant's principle Signorini problem Variational inequality Notes References Biographical references . The