Federico Amodeo (8 October 1859,
Avellino
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– 3 November 1946,
Naples
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) was an Italian mathematician, specializing in
projective geometry
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, and a historian of mathematics.
He received in 1883 his Ph.D. (''laurea'') in mathematics from the
University of Naples
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, where he became an instructor (''libero docente'') and from 1885 to 1923 taught projective geometry.
He also taught as a professor in Naples at the Istituto Tecnico "Gianbattista Della Porta" from 1890 to 1923, when he retired.
[ In 1890–1891 he visited the geometers at the ]University of Turin
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.
As a historian, he specialized in the history of mathematics in Naples before 1860, which he explicated in a two-volume work entitled ''Vita matematica napoletana''; volume I (1905), volume II (1924). At the University of Naples from 1905 to 1922 he taught a course on the history of mathematics.[
Amodeo was an ]invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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in 1900 at Paris and again in 1908 in Rome. He was elected a member of the Accademia Pontaniana
The Accademia Pontaniana was the first academy in the modern sense, as a learned society for scholars and humanists and guided by a formal statute. Patronized by Alfonso V of Aragon, it was founded by the poet Antonio Beccadelli in Naples durin ...
.
Works
* ''Complementi di analisi algebrica elementare'', 1909
''Lezione di geometria proiettiva''
3rd edition, 2nd reprinting, 1920Gino Loria
Gino Benedetto Loria (19 May 1862, Mantua – 30 January 1954, Genoa) was a Jewish-Italian mathematician and historian of mathematics.
Biography
Loria studied mathematics in Mantua, Turin, and Pavia and received his doctorate in 1883 from the U ...
letta nella tornata dell'8 gennaio 1933'', Napoli, Tipografia dell'Ospedale Psichiatrico Provinciale Leonardo Bianchi
* ''Lo sviluppo della prospettiva in Francia nel secolo XVII: memoria letta all'Accademia Pontaniana di Napoli nella tornata del 25 giugno 1933'', Napoli, Tipografia dell'Ospedale Psichiatrico Provinciale Leonardo Bianchi, 1933
* ''Origine e sviluppo della geometria proiettiva'', Napoli, Editore B. Pellerano, 1939
* ''Sintesi storico-critica della geometria delle curve algebriche'', Conte editore Napoli 1945
References
External links
Biografia
at SISM website
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1859 births
1946 deaths
19th-century Italian mathematicians
20th-century Italian mathematicians
University of Naples Federico II alumni
Academic staff of the University of Naples Federico II
Italian historians of mathematics
People from Avellino