Giovanni Guccia
Giovanni Battista Guccia (born October 21, 1855 in Palermo , † October 29, 1914 there ) was an Italian mathematician. In 1884 he was the founder of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo .
Guccia came from a wealthy Sicilian family and received a good education. He studied mathematics at the University of Palermo and then with Luigi Cremona at the University of Rome, where he received his doctorate in 1880 with a dissertation on algebraic surfaces. He then returned to Palermo, where he became professor of geometry in 1889. In 1884 he founded the Circolo Matematico di Palermo there, which achieved European importance under his leadership. Guccia took over the financing himself and was editor of their magazine Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo.
He dealt with Cremona transformations and classification and projective properties of algebraic curves.
In 1906 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Giovanni Guccia. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Giovanni Battista Guccia at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 15, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guccia, Giovanni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guccia, Giovanni Battista (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palermo |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1914 |
| Place of death | Palermo |