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Luciano Orlando (13 May 1887 – 21 August 1915) was an Italian mathematician and military engineer.


Biography

Orlando was born in
Caronia Caronia ( Sicilian: ''Carunìa'', Greek: ( Ptol.) or ( Diod. et al.), Latin: ''Calacte'' or ''Cale Acte'') is a town and ''comune'' on the north coast of Sicily, in the province of Messina, about halfway between Tyndaris (modern Tindari) and ...
,
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. In 1903 he received his from the
University of Messina The University of Messina (; Latin: ''Studiorum Universitas Messanae''), known colloquially as UniME, is a state university located in Messina, Sicily, Italy. Founded in 1548 by Pope Paul III, it was the world's first Jesuit college, and today it ...
, where he was a student of Bagnera and Marcolongo. After a year of graduate study at the
University of Pisa The University of Pisa (, UniPi) is a public university, public research university in Pisa, Italy. Founded in 1343, it is one of the oldest universities in Europe. Together with Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Sant'Anna School of Advanced S ...
, he became an assistant and at the University of Messina. After the
1908 Messina earthquake A devastating earthquake occurred on 28 December 1908 in Sicily and Calabria, southern Italy with a moment magnitude of 7.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''). The epicentre was in the Strait of Messina which separates Sicily f ...
, he moved to Rome, where he taught at the and at the Aeronautical School of Engineering of the
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. He took part in some university competitions, but was unsuccessful. In 1915, when he went into military action, some of his friends warned him that they thought his courage might quickly lead to his death. He died that year in Isonzo as Captain of Military Engineers, leading an action of his company of demolition specialists against the bridge of St. Daniel near
Tolmin Tolmin (; ,trilingual name ''Tolmein, Tolmino, Tolmin'' inGemeindelexikon, der im Reichsrate Vertretenen Königreiche und Länder. Bearbeit auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1900. Herausgegeben von der K.K. Statistische ...
. (Half of the entire Italian WWI casualties occurred in the Battles of the Isonzo.) He was an invited speaker of the
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in 1908 in Rome. Orlando's most important publications deal with mathematical physics, especially the theory of elasticity and the theory of integral equations. He was one of the first to recognize the importance of Pincherle-Goursat kernels, which are an important special case of Fredholm kernels. Also noteworthy is some of Orlando's algebraic research, inspired by his teacher Bagnera. He was the father of the journalist, writer and politician Ruggero Orlando.Mauro Forno (2013).
Orlando, Ruggero
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'', Volume 79.
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Selected publications


"Sulla deformazione di un triedro trirettangolo e di una lastra indefinita, elastici, isotropi."
Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo (1884–1940) 17, no. 2 (1903): 335–352.
Relazione fra i minori d'ordine ''p'' d'una matrice quadrata di caratteristica ''p''.
Giornale di matematiche di Battaglini 40 (1902): 233–245.
"Sulla riduzione delle quadriche a forma canonica
Giornale di matematiche di Battaglini 41 (1903): 222–224.
2)/2 + ... + (zp–1)/(p–1))">"Sulla sviluppo della funzione (1–z) exp(z + (z2)/2 + ... + (zp–1)/(p–1))
Giornale di matematiche di Battaglini 41 (1903): 377–378.
ma di Green per la sfera".">"Sulla funzione ''n''ma di Green per la sfera".
Giornale di matematiche di Battaglini 42 (1904): 292–296.
"Sulla deformazione del suolo elastico isotropo."
Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo (1884–1940) 18, no. 1 (1904): 311–317.
"Sopra alcune funzioni analoghe alla funzione di green per un parallelepipedo rettangolo."
Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo (1884–1940) 19, no. 1 (1905): 62–65.
"Sulla deformazione di un solido isotropo limitato da due piani paralleli, per tensioni superficiali date."
Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo (1884–1940) 19, no. 1 (1905): 66–77.
4 in un parallelepipedo rettangolo."">"Sull’integrazione della Δ4 in un parallelepipedo rettangolo."
Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo (1884–1940) 21, no. 1 (1906): 316–318.
"Nuove osservazioni sulla formula integrale di Fourier."
Rendiconti Accademia Lincei (5) vol. 18 (1909): 343–348. *"Sulla risoluzione delle equazioni integrali." Tip. della R. Accad. dei Lincei, 1909.
"Sopra alcuni problemi di aerodinamica."
Il Nuovo Cimento (1901–1910) 20, no. 1 (1910): 46–51.
"Sopra un brevetto crocco relativo all’attacco delle ali di un aeroplano."
Il Nuovo Cimento (1901–1910) 20, no. 1 (1910): 52–57.
"Effetto dell’attacco elastico sul rollio d’un aeroplano."
Il Nuovo Cimento (1901-1910) 20, no. 1 (1910): 58–63.
"Modo d’intensifigare gli effetti dell’attacco elastico in un aeroplano."
Il Nuovo Cimento (1901–1910) 20, no. 1 (1910): 69–73.
"Sulla caratteristica del risultante di Sylvester."
Rendiconti Accademia Lincei (5) vol. 19 (1910): 257–269.
"Nuove osservazioni sul problema di Hurwitz."
Rendiconti Accademia Lincei (5) vol. 19 (1910): 317–321.
"Sull'equazione alle semisomme e sul teorema di Hurwitz."
Rendiconti Accademia Lincei (5) vol. 19 (1910): 390–393.
"Sopra alcune questioni relative al problema di Hurwitz."
Rendiconti Accademia Lincei (5) vol. 19 (1910): 430–434.
"Sulla dimonstrazione elementare del teorema di Hurwitz."
Rendiconti Accademia Lincei (5) vol. 20 (1911): 742–745.
"Sul problema di Hurwitz relativo alle parti reali delle radici di un'equazione algebrica."
Mathematische Annalen 71, no. 2 (1911): 233–245.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Orlando, Luciano Italian mathematicians Italian military personnel killed in World War I University of Messina alumni Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome 1887 births 1915 deaths Mathematicians from Sicily