Pieri

Mario Pieri

Born: 22 June 1860 in Lucca, Italy
Died: 1 March 1913 in Sant' Andrea di C˜mpito (near Lucca), Italy

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Pieri was a member of Peano's Italian School of Geometers.

He taught at Turin and, in 1900, following a competition, became professor at the University of Catania.

Pieri worked mainly on projective geometry but also studied the foundations of mathematics, in particular the foundations of geometry. He improved on results of Pasch and Peano with his axiomatic system for geometry.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. B Levi, Mario Pieri, Bollettino di bibliographia e storia della scienze matematiche 15 (1913), 65-74, 16 (1914), 32.
  3. G Castelnuovo, Mario Pieri, Bollettino della mathesis 5 (1913), 40-41.
  4. G Peano, Mario Pieri, Academia pro Interlingua, Discussiones 4 (1913), 31-35.
  5. E A Marchisotto, Mario Pieri : His contributions to the foundations and teaching of geometry, Historia Mathematica 16 (1989), 287-288.
  6. E A Marchisotto, Mario Pieri : His contributions to geometry and foundations of mathematics, Historia Mathematica 20 (1993), 285-303. 
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