See (Fichera 1995, p. 49). Fichera, Gaetano (1995), "La nascita della teoria delle disequazioni variazionali ricordata dopo trent'anni", Incontro scientifico italo-spagnolo. Roma, 21 ottobre 1993, Atti dei Convegni Lincei (in Italian), vol. 114, Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, pp. 47–53. The birth of the theory of variational inequalities remembered thirty years later (English translation of the contribution title) is an historical paper describing the beginning of the theory of variational inequalities from the point of view of its founder.
This dramatic situation is described by Fichera (1995, p. 51) himself. Fichera, Gaetano (1995), "La nascita della teoria delle disequazioni variazionali ricordata dopo trent'anni", Incontro scientifico italo-spagnolo. Roma, 21 ottobre 1993, Atti dei Convegni Lincei (in Italian), vol. 114, Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, pp. 47–53. The birth of the theory of variational inequalities remembered thirty years later (English translation of the contribution title) is an historical paper describing the beginning of the theory of variational inequalities from the point of view of its founder.
Fichera (1995, p. 53) reports the episode following the remembrances of Mauro Picone: see the entry "Antonio Signorini" for further details. Fichera, Gaetano (1995), "La nascita della teoria delle disequazioni variazionali ricordata dopo trent'anni", Incontro scientifico italo-spagnolo. Roma, 21 ottobre 1993, Atti dei Convegni Lincei (in Italian), vol. 114, Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, pp. 47–53. The birth of the theory of variational inequalities remembered thirty years later (English translation of the contribution title) is an historical paper describing the beginning of the theory of variational inequalities from the point of view of its founder.