Lucio Lombardo-Radice

{{Short description|Italian mathematician (1916–1982)}}

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Lucio Lombardo-Radice (Catania, 10 July 1916; Brussels, 21 November 1982) was an Italian mathematician. A student of Gaetano Scorza,{{mathgenealogy|id=97474|name=Lucio Lombardo Radice}} Lombardo-Radice contributed to finite geometry and geometric combinatorics together with Guido Zappa and Beniamino Segre, and wrote important works concerning the Non-Desarguesian plane. He was also a leading member of the Italian Communist Party and a member of its central committee.{{citation|title=Eurocommunism: its roots and future in Italy and elsewhere|first=George R.|last=Urban|publisher=Universe Books|year=1978|isbn=978-0-87663-329-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/eurocommunismits0000unse/page/279 279]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/eurocommunismits0000unse/page/279}}. He had a long professional and political friendship with German natural scientist and dissident Robert Havemann.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-13 |title="Ich bin immer ein Genosse" |url=https://www.akweb.de/ausgaben/688/ich-bin-immer-ein-genosse-sechs-schlaglichter-auf-mathematik-und-politik/ |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=www.akweb.de |language=de}}

Lombardo-Radice's parents were Giuseppe Lombardo Radice and Gemma Harasim.{{cite news |title=LOMBARDO-RADICE, Giuseppe |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giuseppe-lombardo-radice_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ |accessdate=13 May 2020 |work=Treccani}} His children included the writer {{ill|Marco Lombardo Radice|it}} and actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice.{{cite news |title=Giovanni Lombardo Radice: nel suo genere, un mostro |url=https://www.repubblica.it/venerdi/interviste/2016/11/28/news/giovanni_lombardo_radice_un_mostro_nel_suo_genere-153015808/ |accessdate=13 May 2020 |work=La Repubblica |date=28 November 2016 |language=it}}{{cite news |title=LOMBARDO RADICE, Marco |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/marco-lombardo-radice_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ |accessdate=13 May 2020 |work=Treccani}}

The Istituto Tecnico Statale Commerciale "Lucio Lombardo Radice" per Programmatori, a school in Rome, Italy, founded in 1982 as the XXV Istituto Tecnico Commerciale per Programmatori, was in 1992 renamed after Lombardo-Radice. It is now named Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Lombardo Radice[http://www.islombardoradice.gov.it/dinamico/312/home/scuola.html Brief history of ITC Lucio Lombardo Radice] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805072317/http://www.itclombardoradice.roma.scuolaeservizi.it/scuola.htm |date=2009-08-05 }}.