Gaetano Scorza

Bernardino Gaetano Scorza ( born September 29, 1876 in Morano Calabro, † August 6, 1939 in Rome ) was an Italian mathematician who mainly dealt with algebraic geometry.

Scorza attended the School of Piaristen in Florence and studied at the University of Pisa mathematics with the Laurea degree in 1899 (his dissertation was published in Mathematische Annalen ) Eugenio Bertini and Luigi Bianchi. Among his teachers was also Ulisse Dini. He was an assistant for projective and descriptive geometry in Pisa and then in Turin Corrado Segre. In Turin he became friends with Francesco Severi, who earned his doctorate there. In 1900 he returned to Pisa back habilitated and lectured at the Scuola Normale Superiore. 1902 to 1912 he taught at technical schools in Terni, Bari and Palermo. In 1912 he won a competition for the chair in projective and descriptive geometry at the University of Cagliari. In 1913 he moved to the University of Parma and from 1916 to 1921 he taught analytical geometry at the University of Catania. In 1921 he went to Naples and in 1934 to the University of Rome.

It led to the 1916 Riemann matrices in algebraic geometry (theory of abelian integrals and functions). He also dealt with group theory and mathematical economics (where he got into a dispute with Vilfredo Pareto ). Scorza wrote several textbooks and was in the Italian Commission for mathematics education, from 1909 to Guido Castelnuovo and Federigo Enriques in the International Commission on Mathematical teaching as a representative of Italy from 1932 to 1939 and was its vice- president. As mathematics didactics he was an admirer of Felix Klein and its elementary mathematics from a higher point of view. 1923 to 1932 he was a member of the Consiglio Nazionale della Public Education and shortly before his death, he was appointed senator.

In 1926 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.

In 1907 he married Angiola Dragoni, who studied mathematics in Pisa had with the Laurea degree in 1902., With whom he had the son Giuseppe Scorza Dragoni - ( 1908-1996 ), who earned his doctorate at Severi and from 1936 was professor of Analysis in Padua, it in Rome, Bologna and finally back in Padua.