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 academy in Turin.[2][3] A crater on the far side of the moon, Pizzetti, is named after him.[1]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 http://tzamfirescu.tricube.de/TZamfirescu-183.pdf (Paolo Pizzetti: The forgotten originator of triangle comparison geometry)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Società Italiana di Storia delle Matematiche - Online Biography of Paolo Pizzetti (Italian)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Mathematica Italiana - Online Biography of Paolo Pizzetti (Italian)


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