Alessandro Terracini
Alessandro Terracini (born October 19, 1889 in Turin , † April 2, 1968 ibid) was an Italian mathematician who dealt with geometry .
Terracini studied at the University of Turin from 1907 to 1911. His teachers included Corrado Segre (from whom he received the laureate in 1911), Enrico D'Ovidio , Gino Fano , Giuseppe Peano , Carlo Somigliana and Guido Fubini . He then worked as an assistant at the chair for projective geometry. During the First World War he was a pioneer officer and developed a periscope that he used for the creation of ballistic tables. From 1919 to 1923 he was an assistant at the University of Modena, 1923/24 he taught analytical geometry in Turin. In 1925, after a competition, he became a professor in Catania , but from 1925 he taught again analytical, projective, descriptive and higher geometry in Turin. From 1938 to 1948, like his brother, he was an emigrant in Argentina due to racial persecution, where he was professor at the University of Tucumán in the Faculty of Engineering. In Argentina he founded the Revista de Matemàtica y Fisica Teòrica with elix Cernuschi and was president of the Argentine Mathematical Society. From 1948 he was back on his chair in Turin.
He dealt with algebraic geometry and metric and projective differential geometry (especially projective differential geometry in higher-dimensional spaces). He characterized algebraic surfaces (especially Veronese surfaces) in their differential geometric properties. He has also published on algebra, analysis, numerical analysis and the history of mathematics. Around 180 scientific publications come from him.
He was president of the Unione Matematica Italiana . In 1960 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and he was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Turin.
He published an autobiography in 1968.
He was the brother of the linguist and literary critic Benvenuto Terracini (1886–1968).
Fonts
- Ricordi di un matematico. Un sessantennio di vita universitaria, Rome: Cremonese 1968
- Esposizione di alcuni risultati di geometria proiettiva differenziale negli iperspazi, appendix in: Guido Fubini, Eduard Čech: Geometria proiettiva differenziale, Padua 1926.
- with Gino Fano : Lezioni di geometria analitica e proiettiva, 1930
- Selecta, 2 volumes, Rome: Cremonese 1968
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Terracini, Alessandro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2nd, 1968 |
| Place of death | Turin |