Giovanni Carandino, also known as Ioannis Karandinos (), and sometimes as Jean Carantino or John Carandino (born 1784,

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; died 1834,

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), was an ethnically Greek mathematician, founder of the Greek mathematics school, and translator into Greek of the major French works on analysis in the early 19th century.

Education

He studied mathematics during Cephalonia's occupation by the French in 1808, under the direction of Ecole polytechnique's alumnus

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, a very good mathematician, who was a navy officer at that time. Then, under

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government on Ionian Islands, his talent was remarked and he was sent to study mathematics in Ecole polytechnique, under

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, Poisson and Fourier. Then he went to England for a study trip, and went back to Corfu to establish the

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, where he created the first course of modern mathematics in Greek language. He made contributions to the formalisation of analysis, which were published in 1828 in the ''

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''. He taught an entire generation of Greek mathematicians, and is thus seen as the founder of the modern Greek analysis school.

References

* Recherches sur la nature du calcul différentiel par M. le Dr J. Carandino de Céphalonie, de l'Université Ionienne.
AMS Session on History, Washington, DC, on 2009-01-05
* C. Goldstein, J. Gray et J. Ritter (dir.), L'Europe mathématique. Histoires, mythes, identités, Éditions Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris {{DEFAULTSORT:Carandino, Giovanni 1784 births 1834 deaths 19th-century Greek mathematicians People from Cephalonia Republic of Venice people Kingdom of the Two Sicilies people 19th-century Greek scientists 19th-century Greek educators