Mario Pieri
Mario Pieri ( born June 22, 1860 in Lucca, Lucca, Italy, † March 1, 1913 in Andrea di Compito, Italy) was an Italian mathematician.
Life
After schooling, he studied from 1880 to 1881 at the University of Bologna, before, thanks to funding by Salvatore Pincherle, 1884 the elite high school Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa finished ( Laurea with Luigi Bianchi ). After that, he taught at a school in Livorno and from 1885 at a technical school in Pisa. He also lectured at the University of Pisa on polyhedra. In 1886 he won the competition for the chair of geometry at the Royal Military Academy in Turin and in 1888 assistant at the Chair of projective geometry at the University of Turin. In 1891 he completed his habilitation ( libero docente ) in Turin and then held lectures at the University on projective geometry. He applied several times in vain to professors in Italian universities, which were awarded in competitions (most recently he was beaten in Bologna narrowly by Federigo Enriques ), until he received in 1900 a professor at the University of Catania. After eight years in Catania in 1908, he moved to Parma, where he taught at the University and its students Beppo Levi was a colleague. The position in Parma was no improvement over Catania, but he wanted to be closer to his home and was already seriously ill. He died of cancer.
During his teaching activities, Pieri was particularly concerned with the topics of arithmetic and geometry. He translated the geometry of position by Karl von Staudt and dealt with fundamental principles of projective geometry. Bertrand Russell, in 1912 at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Cambridge invited him ( Pieri but was too ill to participate ), paid tribute to him as one of the founders of the purely axiomatic construction of projective geometry.
He was an avid mountaineer.
Writings
- I principii della geometria di posizione composti in sistema logicao deduttivo, Memorie della R. Accademia delle Scienze de Torino, 48, 1898, 1-62
- Sur la géométrie envisagée comme un système purement logique, Bibliothèque du Congrès International de Philosophie, III, 1900, 367-404
- Opere sui Fondamenti della matematica, Collection: Opere di grandi matematici, UMI, Bologna, 1980