Giovanni Battista Guccia

Giovanni Battista Guccia ( born October 21, 1855 in Palermo, † October 29, 1914 ) was an Italian mathematician. He was the founder in 1884 of Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

Guccia came from a wealthy Sicilian family and received a good education. He studied mathematics at the University of Palermo and then at Luigi Cremona at the University of Rome, where he received his doctorate in 1880 with a dissertation on algebraic surfaces. Then he returned to Palermo, where he was Professor of Geometry in 1889. In 1884 he founded the Circolo Matematico di Palermo, who gained European significance under his leadership. The study was financed by Guccia itself and was editor of its journal Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

He dealt with Cremona transformations, and classification and projective properties of algebraic curves.