Lucio Lombardo-Radice (

Catania Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, wh ...

, 10 July 1916;

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, 21 November 1982) was an Italian

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

. A student of

Gaetano Scorza Bernardino Gaetano Scorza (29 September 1876, in Morano Calabro – 6 August 1939, in Rome) was an Italian mathematician working in algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, m ...

, Lombardo-Radice contributed to

finite geometry A finite geometry is any geometry, geometric system that has only a finite set, finite number of point (geometry), points. The familiar Euclidean geometry is not finite, because a Euclidean line contains infinitely many points. A geometry based ...

and geometric combinatorics together with Guido Zappa and

Beniamino Segre Beniamino Segre (16 February 1903 – 2 October 1977) was an Italian mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to algebraic geometry and one of the founders of finite geometry. Life and career He was born and studied in Turin. ...

, and wrote important works concerning the

Non-Desarguesian plane In mathematics, a non-Desarguesian plane is a projective plane that does not satisfy Desargues' theorem (named after Girard Desargues), or in other words a plane that is not a Desarguesian plane. The theorem of Desargues is true in all projective ...

. He was also a leading member of the

Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party (, PCI) was a communist and democratic socialist political party in Italy. It was established in Livorno as the Communist Party of Italy (, PCd'I) on 21 January 1921, when it seceded from the Italian Socialist Part ...

and a member of its central committee. He had a long professional and political friendship with German natural scientist and dissident

Robert Havemann Robert Havemann (; 11 March 1910 – 9 April 1982) was an East German chemist and dissident. Life and career He studied chemistry in Berlin and Munich from 1929 to 1933, and then later received a doctorate in physical chemistry from the Kaiser ...

. Lombardo-Radice's parents were

Giuseppe Lombardo Radice Giuseppe Lombardo Radice (Catania, June 24, 1879 - Cortina d'Ampezzo, August 16, 1938) was an Italian pedagogist and philosopher. Early life and career He was born in Catania on June 24, 1879 (but his birth was registered late, on June 28) to Luci ...

and Gemma Harasim. His children included the writer and actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice. The Istituto Tecnico Statale Commerciale "Lucio Lombardo Radice" per Programmatori, a school in

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, founded in 1982 as the XXV Istituto Tecnico Commerciale per Programmatori, was in 1992 renamed after Lombardo-Radice. It is now named Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Lombardo RadiceBrief history of ITC Lucio Lombardo Radice
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