Roberto Conti (23 April 1923 – 30 August 2006) was an Italian mathematician, who contributed to the theory of ordinary differential equations[2] and the development of the comparison method.
and Ph.D. in mathematics from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, under the supervision, respectively, of Leonida Tonelli (replaced, after his premature death, by Emilio Baiada) and Giovanni Sansone.
and Ph.D. dissertations dealt with translation surfaces (possibly a topic suggested by Tonelli after knowing about some Russian works) and particular aspects of the Cauchy problem.
Minorsky, after the Russian Revolution, moved to U.S. and later to southern France: during that period he came frequently to Florence, to give seminars and exchange mathematical ideas with Sansone and Conti.
On another hand, Conti’s contributions to the development of the comparison method for the qualitative analysis of differential equations were particularly prominent.