Alfredo Capelli (5 August 1855 – 28 January 1910) was an Italian mathematician who discovered Capelli's identity.

Biography

Capelli earned his

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from the University of Rome in 1877 under

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, and moved to the

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where he worked as an assistant for

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. In 1881 he became the professor of Algebraic Analysis at the

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, replacing

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who had recently moved to Bologna. In 1886, he moved again to the

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, where he held the chair in algebra. He remained at

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until his death in 1910. As well as being professor there, Capelli was editor of the ''Giornale di Matematiche di Battaglini'' from 1894 to 1910, and was elected to the

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Selected publications

References

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External links

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An Italian short biography of Alfredo Capelli
in ''MATEpristem'' online. {{DEFAULTSORT:Capelli, Alfredo 19th-century Italian mathematicians 20th-century Italian mathematicians 1855 births 1910 deaths Academic staff of the University of Palermo Giornale di matematiche editors