Salvatore Pincherle

Salvatore Pincherle ( born March 11, 1853 in Trieste, † July 10, 1936 in Bologna ) was an Italian mathematician.

Pincherle was the son of a Jewish businessman and spent his childhood in Marseille. From 1869 he studied under Enrico Betti and Ulisse Dini at the University of Pisa. In 1874 he graduated and became a school teacher in Pavia. With a scholarship, he studied in 1877 continued at the University of Berlin under Karl Weierstrass, who had a great influence on him and his teachings he spread in Italy (first in a review article in 1880 in the Giornale di Matematiche, which was influential in Italy). From 1880 to 1928 he was a professor at the University of Bologna, for a few months after he was Professor in 1880 in Palermo. In 1922 he founded the Unione Matematica Italiana in Bologna ( "Italian Mathematical Union " ), the first of which he was president until 1936. In 1928, he was President of the Third International Congress of Mathematicians in Bologna, where he was instrumental in helping that German mathematicians were readmitted. In 1924 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto ( Sulle operazioni funzionali linearized ).

Pincherle worked on functional equations and functional operators and applies with Vito Volterra, with whom he worked, as one of the founders of functional analysis.

He was, inter alia, Member of the Accademia dei Lincei, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Writings

• Ugo Amaldi with: Le operazioni Distributive e loro Applicazioni all'Analisi, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1901
• Gli Elementi della teoria delle funzioni analitiche, Bologna, Zanichelli 1922
• Algebra complementare, 2 volumes, 4th Edition 1923
• Functional operators, and - equations, Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences 1905