Paolo Pizzetti
Paolo Pizzetti (July 24, 1860 — April 14, 1918)[1][2][3] was an Italian geodesist, astronomer, geophysicist and mathematician. He studied engineering in Rome, graduating in 1880.[1][2][3] He remained in Rome and assisted Giuseppe Pisati and Enrico Pucci with their absolute determination of gravity.[1][2][3] In 1886 he became Associate Professor of Geodesy at the University of Genoa where he stayed until becoming Professor of Geodesy at the University of Pisa in 1900.[1][2][3] He stayed in Pisa until his death in 1918.
He wrote Höhere Geodäsie (Higher Geodesy)[1][2] as well as many important works on the theory of errors. He was a member of Accademia dei Lincei and the one in Turin.[2][3] He gives his name to a crater on the far side of the moon, Pizzetti.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 http://tzamfirescu.tricube.de/TZamfirescu-183.pdf (Paolo Pizzetti: The forgotten originator of triangle comparison geometry)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Società Italiana di Storia delle Matematiche - Online Biography of Paolo Pizzetti (Italian)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Mathematica Italiana - Online Biography of Paolo Pizzetti (Italian)