Gino Benedetto Loria (19 May 1862,

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– 30 January 1954,

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) was a

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mathematician and

historian of mathematics The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments ...

. Loria studied mathematics in

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, and

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and received his doctorate in 1883 from the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the oldest universities in Europe and continues to play an impo ...

under the direction of

Enrico D'Ovidio Enrico D'Ovidio (1842-1933) was an Italian mathematician who is known by his works on geometry. Life and work D'Ovidio, son of a liberal parents involved in the Italian independence movement, studied at the university of Naples under his uncle ...

. For several years he was D'Ovidio's assistant in Turin. Starting in 1886 he became, as a result of winning a then-customary competition, Professor for Algebra and Analytic Geometry at the

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, where he stayed for the remainder of his career. Loria did research on

projective geometry In mathematics, projective geometry is the study of geometric properties that are invariant with respect to projective transformations. This means that, compared to elementary Euclidean geometry, projective geometry has a different setting, pro ...

, special curves and rational transformations in algebraic geometry, and

elliptic function In the mathematical field of complex analysis, elliptic functions are a special kind of meromorphic functions, that satisfy two periodicity conditions. They are named elliptic functions because they come from elliptic integrals. Originally those in ...

s. At the

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he was an invited speaker in 1897 in Zürich, 1904 in Heidelberg, in 1908 in Rome, in 1912 in Cambridge, UK, in 1924 in Toronto, in 1928 in Bologna, and in 1932 in Zürich. In 1897 he became editor of ''Bolletino di Bibliografia e Storia delle Science Matematiche''. In 1916 he published a guide to the study of history of mathematics. A reviewer noted :The amount of information given is really remarkable, and it is well up to date; the author, too, has not shrunk from the disagreeable duty of pointing out works ... which must be used with caution. Loria wrote a history of mathematics and was especially concerned with the history of mathematics in Italy and among the ancient Greeks. After the German seized control of Italy in World War II,

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helped Loria (endangered as a Jew) hide in

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. Loria was elected to the

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and the Turin Academy of Sciences. An asteroid ( 27056 Ginoloria) is named after him.

Books

''Il passato ed il presente delle principali teorie geometriche, storiae e bibliografia''
(1896, 2nd edn., 1907, 3rd edn.; Torino: Carlo Clausen);, 1931, 4th edn., Padova: A. Milani
''Spezielle algebraische und transscendente ebene kurven. Theorie und Geschichte.'', Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1902.

''Curve sghembe speciali algebriche e trascendenti'', 2 vols., Bologna, Zanichelli 1925

''Le scienze esatte nell' antica Grecia'', Mailand, U. Hoepli, 1914

''Storia della Geometria Descrittiva dalle Origini sino ai Giorni Nostri.''
(1921, Milano: Ulrico Hoepli) * Storia delle matematiche dall'alba della civiltà al tramonto del secolo XIX, Mailand, U. Hoepli, 1950, 1st edn. Turin 1929 to 1933 in three vols.
''Vorlesungen über Darstellende Geometrie'', 2 vols., Teubner 1907

''Die hauptsachlichsten Theorien der Geometrie in ihrer fruheren und heutigen Entwickelung'', Teubner 1907

with G. Kohn ''Spezielle ebene algebraische Kurven'', Enzyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften

''Spezielle ebene algebraische Kurven von höherer als vierter Ordnung'', Enzyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften

Articles

* "The Philosophical Magazine and History of Mathematics" (1916)

Mathematical Gazette ''The Mathematical Gazette'' is an academic journal of mathematics education, published three times yearly, that publishes "articles about the teaching and learning of mathematics with a focus on the 15–20 age range and expositions of attractive ...

8:325–9.
''La scienza nel secolo 18.''
In: ''

Scientia Scientia is the Latin word for knowledge. It may refer to: * 7756 Scientia *''The Triumph of Science over Death'', a sculpture of Filipino hero José Rizal * ''Scientia'' (UTFSM journal), a scientific journal published by Universidad Técnica Fe ...

'', 45, 1929, pp. 1–12.
''Lo sviluppo delle matematiche pure durante il secolo 19. Parte 1: La Geometria: dalla geometria descrittiva alla geometria numerativa.''
In: ''Scientia'', 45, 1929, pp. 225–234.
''Lo sviluppo delle matematiche pure durante il secolo 19. Parte 2: La Geometria: dalla geometria differenziale all'analysis situs.''
In: ''Scientia'', 45, 1929, pp. 297–306.
''La legge d'evoluzione propria delle matematiche.''
In: ''Scientia'', 41, 1927, pp. 321–332.

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Siegfried Gottwald Siegfried Johannes Gottwald (30 March 1943 – 20 September 2015) was a German mathematician, logician and historian of science. Life and work Gottwald was born in Limbach, Saxony in 1943. From 1961 to 1966, he studied mathematics at the Unive ...

, Hans-Joachim Illgauds, Karl-Heinz Schlote (eds.): ''Lexikon bedeutender Mathematiker''. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1990, .

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Biography, from F. G. Tricomi (Italian)

Biography in ''History of ICMI''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Loria, Gino 1862 births 1954 deaths 19th-century Italian Jews 20th-century Italian Jews Scientists from Mantua University of Turin alumni 19th-century Italian mathematicians 20th-century Italian mathematicians Italian historians of mathematics

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