Gino Loria
Gino Benedetto Loria (19 May 1862, Mantua – 30 January 1954, Genoa) was an Italian mathematician and historian of mathematics.
Loria studied mathematics in Mantua, Turin, and Pavia and received his doctorate in 1883 from the University of Turin under the direction of Enrico D'Ovidio. For several years he was D'Ovidio's assistant in Turin. Starting in 1886 he became, as a result of winning a then-customary competition, Professor for Algebra and Analytic Geometry in Genoa, where he stayed for the remainder of his career. During the German control of Italy in WWII, Waldensians helped Loria (endangered as a Jew) hide in Torre Pellice.
Loria did research on projective geometry, special curves and rational transformations in algebraic geometry, and elliptic functions. He is best known as a historian of mathematics. He wrote a history of mathematics and was especially concerned with the history of mathematics in Italy and among the ancient Greeks.
He was since 1897 editor of "Bolletino di bibliografia e storia delle science matematiche".
Loria was elected to the Accademia dei Lincei and the Turin Academy of Sciences. An asteroid (27056 Ginoloria) is named after him.
Books
- Il passato ed il presente delle principali teorie geometriche, storiae e bibliografia; (1896, 2nd edn., 1907, 3rd edn.; Torino: Carlo Clausen);,[1] 1931, 4th edn., Padova: A. Milani
- Curve sghembe speciali algebriche e trascendenti, 2 vols., Bologna, Zanichelli 1925
- Le scienze esatte nell' antica Grecia, Mailand, U. Hoepli, 1914
- Storia delle matematiche dall'alba della civiltà al tramonto del secolo XIX, Mailand, U. Hoepli, 1950, 1st edn. Turin 1929 to 1933 in three vols.[2][3][4]
- Vorlesungen über Darstellende Geometrie, 2 vols., Teubner 1907
- Die hauptsachlichsten Theorien der Geometrie in ihrer fruheren und heutigen Entwickelung, Teubner 1907
- with G. Kohn Spezielle ebene algebraische Kurven, Enzyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften
- Spezielle ebene algebraische Kurven von höherer als vierter Ordnung, Enzyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften
Articles
- La scienza nel secolo 18. In: Scientia, 45, 1929, pp. 1–12.
- Lo sviluppo delle matematiche pure durante il secolo 19. Parte 1: La Geometria: dalla geometria descrittiva alla geometria numerativa. In: Scientia, 45, 1929, pp. 225–234.
- Lo sviluppo delle matematiche pure durante il secolo 19. Parte 2: La Geometria: dalla geometria differenziale all'analysis situs. In: Scientia, 45, 1929, pp. 297–306.
- La legge d'evoluzione propria delle matematiche. In: Scientia, 41, 1927, pp. 321–332.
Sources
- Siegfried Gottwald, Hans-Joachim Illgauds, Karl-Heinz Schlote (eds.): Lexikon bedeutender Mathematiker. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-323-00319-5.
References
- ↑ Kasner, Edward (1909). "Review: Il passato ed il presente delle principali teorie geometriche by Gino Loria". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (8): 402–403.
- ↑ McClenon, R. B. (1930). "Review: Storia delle Matematiche, Vol. I". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (5): 336–337.
- ↑ McClenon, R. B. (1932). "Review: Storia delle Matematiche, Vol. II". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (11): 787–788.
- ↑ McClenon, R. B. (1937). "Review: Storia delle Matematiche, Vol. III". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (1, Part 1): 10–11.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Gino Loria", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Biography, from F. G. Tricomi (Italian)
- Biography in History of ICMI
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