and his school on the Minimal surface problem approached by the theory of Caccioppoli sets. External links : web page of the scientific institution named after him at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. available at the web site of the Research Group in Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. . A video interview with its Italian transcription by Antonio Bernardo, available at Matematicamente thanks to the kind permission of Michele Emmer, of De Giorgi's family and of the Unione Matematica Italiana. . . 1928 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Italian mathematicians 20th-century Roman Catholics Mathematical analysts Members of the French Academy of Sciences Members of the Lincean Academy Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences PDE theorists People from Lecce Wolf Prize in Mathematics laureates Academic staff of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa