Lucio Lombardo-Radice

Lucio Lombardo-Radice (Catania, 10 July 1916; Bruxelles, 21 November 1982) was an Italian mathematician. A student of Gaetano Scorza,^[1] Lombardo-Radice contributed to finite geometry and geometric combinatorics together with Guido Zappa and Beniamino Segre, and wrote important works concerning the Non-Desarguesian plane. He was also a leading member of the Italian Communist Party and a member of its central committee.^[2]

The Istituto Tecnico Statale Commerciale "Lucio Lombardo Radice" per Programmatori con sezione Liceo Linguistico, a school in Rome, Italy, founded in 1982 as the XXV Istituto Tecnico Commerciale per Programmatori, was in 1992 renamed after Lombardo-Radice.^[3]

References

^ Lucio Lombardo Radice at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
^ Urban, George R. (1978), Eurocommunism: its roots and future in Italy and elsewhere, Universe Books, p. 279, ISBN 9780876633298 .
^ Brief history of ITC Lucio Lombardo Radice.

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Name	Lombardo-Radice, Lucio
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Date of birth	1916
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Date of death	1982
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