Mario Pieri

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Mario Pieri

Mario Pieri (born June 22, 1860 in Lucca , Province of Lucca , Italy , † March 1, 1913 in Andrea di Compito , Italy) was an Italian mathematician .

Life

After schooling he studied from 1880 to 1881 at the University of Bologna , before, thanks to funding by Salvatore Pincherle , 1884, the elite college Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa ended (Laurea at Luigi Bianchi ). He then taught at a high school in Livorno and from 1885 at a technical school in Pisa. He also gave lectures on polyhedra at the University of Pisa. In 1886 he won the competition for the chair of geometry at the Royal Military Academy in Turin and in 1888 he became an assistant at the chair of projective geometry at the University of Turin. In 1891 he completed his habilitation (libero docente) in Turin and then gave lectures at the university on projective geometry. He applied several times in vain for professorships at Italian universities, which were awarded in competitions (most recently he was narrowly beaten in Bologna by Federigo Enriques ), until he received a professor at the University of Catania in 1900 . After eight years in Catania, he moved to Parma in 1908, where he taught at the university and his student Beppo Levi was a colleague. The position in Parma was no improvement over Catania, but he wanted to be closer to his homeland and was already seriously ill. He died of cancer.

During his teaching activity, Pieri dealt in particular with the fields of arithmetic and geometry . He translated the geometry of the situation by Karl von Staudt and dealt with the fundamentals of projective geometry. Bertrand Russell , who invited him to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Cambridge in 1912 (Pieri was already too sick to attend), praised him as one of the founders of the purely axiomatic structure of projective geometry.

He was a passionate mountaineer.

Fonts

  • I principii della geometria di posizione composti in sistema logicao deduttivo , Memorie della R. Accademia delle Scienze de Torino, 48, 1898, 1-62
  • Sur la géométrie envisagée comme un système purement logique , Bibliothèque du Congrès International de Philosophy, III, 1900, 367–404
  • Opere sui fondamenti della matematica , collection: Opere di grandi matematici, UMI, Bologna, 1980

literature

  • Christian Thiel : Pieri, Mario in: Jürgen Mittelstraß: Encyclopedia Philosophy and Philosophy of Science. Second edition. Volume 6, Metzler 2015 ISBN 978-3-476-02105-2 p. 324 f.
  • Elena Anne Marchisotto, James T. Smith: The Legacy of Mario Pieri in Geometry and Arithmetic. Birkhäuser, Boston 2007, ISBN 978-0-8176-3210-6 .
  • M. Avellone, A. Brigaglia, C. Zappulla The Foundations of Projective Geometry in Italy from De Paolis to Pieri , Arch. Hist. Exact Sci., Vol. 56, 2002, pp. 363-425
  • Hubert C. Kennedy in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  • Beppo Levi Mario Pieri , Bullettino di bibliografia e storia delle scienze matematiche, 15, 1913, 65–74

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personal data
SURNAME Pieri, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucca , Province of Lucca , Italy
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1913
Place of death Andrea di Compito , Italy