Giuseppe Lauricella

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Giuseppe Lauricella

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1867|12|15}}

| birth_place = Agrigento, Italy

| death_date = {{Death date and age |df=yes|1913|1|3|1867|12|15}}

| death_place = Catania, Italy

| field = Mathematics

| work_institutions = University of Catania

| alma_mater = University of Pisa

}}

Giuseppe Lauricella (15 December 1867 – 9 January 1913) was an Italian mathematician who contributed to analysis and theory of elasticity.{{Cite journal

|last=L. Silla |first=L.

|title=Personale accademico. Giuseppe Lauricella

|journal= Boll. Mathesis

|year=1913 |volume=5 |pages=34–40

| language = it

}}[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giuseppe-lauricella_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Lauricella, Giuseppe — Treccani, Dizionario-Biografico] {{in lang|it}}

Biography

Born in Agrigento (Sicily), Lauricella studied at the University of Pisa, where his professors included Luigi Bianchi, Ulisse Dini and Vito Volterra. He taught in secondary schools from 1895 to 1898, then became a professor at the University of Catania. In 1907 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1908 in Rome.{{cite book|author=Lauricella, G.|chapter=Sull'equazione Δ²ⁱV = 0 e su alcune estensioni delle equazioni dell'equilibrio dei corpi elastici isotropi|editor=G. Castelnuovo|title=Atti del IV Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici (Roma, 6–11 Aprile 1908)|year=1909|volume=3|pages=33–59|chapter-url=http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1908.3/Main/icm1908.3.0033.0059.ocr.pdf|access-date=2017-11-20|archive-date=2017-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201080746/http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1908.3/Main/icm1908.3.0033.0059.ocr.pdf|url-status=dead}} [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858027749682;view=1up;seq=45 hathitrust link]

Lauricella died in Catania at age 45 from a scarlet fever he contracted from one of his children.

Contributions

Lauricella hypergeometric series $F_A, F_B, F_C, F_D$
Lauricella's theorem (regarding orthogonal functions)

Notes

References

{{Cite journal

|last=L. Silla |first=L.

|title=Personale accademico. Giuseppe Lauricella

|journal= Boll. Mathesis

|year=1913 |volume=5 |pages=34–40

| language = it

}}

Tricomi: La matematica italiana 1800-1950, 1962 (entry on [http://matematica.unibocconi.it/storia/letterah-l/lauricella.htm Lauricella])

Category:1867 births

Category:1913 deaths

Category:People from Agrigento

Category:Mathematicians from Sicily