Paolo Pizzetti
Paolo Pizzetti (born July 24, 1860 in Parma , † April 14, 1918 in Pisa ) was an Italian geodesist, astronomer and geophysicist.
Pizzetti studied in Rome and was an assistant there after graduating in 1880. He carried out gravimetric measurements with Giuseppe Pisati and Enrico Pucci. In 1886 he became professor of geodesy at the University of Genoa in a competition and from 1900 he was professor of geodesy at the University of Pisa .
He wrote the article Higher Geodesy in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences . In 1905 his Trattato di Geodesia Teoretica was published in Bologna . He also dealt with astronomical measurement errors and with Somigliani with the establishment of a reference gravity ellipsoid of the earth.
Pizzetti wrote important works on the theory of errors.
A moon crater is named after him.
literature
- P. Pizzetti (1891) I fondamenti matematici per la critica dei risultati sperimentali.Atti della Universita di Genova.
- P. Pizzetti Higher Geodesy in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences, Volume 6-1, p. 117
- A. Hald (2000) Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics XLVII. Pizzetti's Contributions to the Statistical Analysis of Normally Distributed Observations, 1891, Biometrika, 87, 213-217.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pizzetti, Paolo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian geodesist, astronomer and geophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parma |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1918 |
| Place of death | Pisa |