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Giacomo Albanese (11 July 1890 – 8 June 1947) was an Italian
mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...
known for his work in
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. He took a permanent position in the
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,
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, in 1936.


Biography

Albanese attended the school in
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,
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. He graduated from there in 1909. Then he entered the
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as a student of mathematics, and received his doctorate in 1913. He was awarded the '' Ulisse Dini'' prize for his doctoral essay on the topic ''Continuous systems of curves on an algebraic surface'', written under the direction of
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. He taught at Scuola Normale Superiore from 1913 to 1919, with an interruption in 1917–1918, when he was conscripted into the Italian Army to fight in
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. After spending a year at the
University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...
to work with
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, he took up in 1920 a professorship in Analysis and Algebra at the Italian Naval Academy in
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. Five years later Albanese moved to the
University of Catania The University of Catania ( it, Università degli Studi di Catania) is a university located in Catania, Sicily. Founded in 1434, it is the oldest university in Sicily, the 13th oldest in Italy, and the 29th oldest university in the world. With a ...
, and then went in 1927 to the University of Palermo, where he spent the next two years. From 1929 until 1936 he held the chair of Geometry at the University of Pisa.


See also

* Albanese variety


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* * 1890 births 1947 deaths 19th-century Italian mathematicians 20th-century Italian mathematicians Algebraic geometers Italian algebraic geometers Mathematicians from Sicily Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa alumni University of Pisa faculty Italian military personnel of World War I University of Padua faculty University of Catania faculty University of Palermo faculty Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa faculty University of São Paulo faculty Italian emigrants to Brazil {{Italy-mathematician-stub