Vitali

Giuseppe Vitali

Born: 26 Aug 1875 in Ravenna, Italy
Died: 29 Feb 1932 in Bologna, Italy

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Vitali assisted Dini in 1899 for 2 years then left mathematics in favour of politics but, when the fascists came to power, he returned to mathematics.

First Vitali was appointed to a chair in Modena, then in Padua and finally, in 1930, in Bologna.

His mathematical results include ones on sets, continuous functions and limits. Since he worked very much on his own his work involves some rediscovering known results and remarkably original discoveries.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. S Pinchertle, Giuseppe Vitali, Bollettino dell'Unione matematica italiana 11 (1932), 125-126.
  3. L Pepe, Guiseppe Vitali e l'analisi reale, Rendiconti del Seminario matematico e fisico di Milano 54 (1984), 187-201. 
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