He graduated in
mathematics in 1901 at the
University of Turin, where he was a student of
Morera and of
Somigliana. He taught
rational mechanics at the
Universities of Messina,
Pavia and
Padua. Laura has dealt with uncommon elasticity problems, namely related to indefinitely extended elastic means and, especially in the last part of his University career, the mechanics of flexible and inextensible surfaces. ==Notes==