Ugo Amaldi (18 April 1875 – 11 November 1957) was an Italian
mathematician
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.
He contributed to the field of
analytic geometry and worked on
Lie group
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s. His son
Edoardo was a physicist.
Biography
He graduated in
mathematics (21 November 1898) at the
University of Bologna
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under the guidance of
S. Pincherle
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History
* an Anglo-Saxon charter's number in Peter Sawyer's, catalogue Language and linguistics
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. He taught at the
University of Cagliari (1903-1905),
Modena
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(1905-1919),
Padova
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(1919-1924),
Roma
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** Roma Airport
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(1924-1950).
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1875 births
1954 deaths
20th-century Italian mathematicians
University of Bologna alumni
Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
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