Giulio Pittarelli (3 February 1852,

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– 2 March 1934, Rome (with bibliography of Pittarelli's publications)) was an Italian mathematician, specializing in

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and algebraic geometry. Pittarelli received from the

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his ''laurea'' in mathematics in 1874 and in engineering in 1876. For many years he was a professor of descriptive geometry at the

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. In addition to his mathematical career, he was a painter, an excellent pianist, and an author, who wrote a biography of

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. Pittarelli was an invited speaker of the

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in 1908 in Rome.

Selected publications

"Sul significato geometrico delle ueberschiebungen nelle forme binarie."
Giornale di Matematiche di Battaglini 17 (1879): 160–171.
"Intorno ad un problema die eliminazione nella teoria analitica della cubica gobba."
Giornale di Matematiche di Battaglini 17 (1879): 244–259.
"La cubica gobba e le forme binarie quadratiche e cubiche."
Giornale di Matematiche di Battaglini 17 (1879): 260–309.
"La lumache di Pascal (Nota I)."
Giornale di Matematiche di Battaglini 21 (1883): 145–168.
"La lumache di Pascal (Nota II)."
Giornale di Matematiche di Battaglini 21 (1883): 173–212. *"I gruppi continui proiettivi semplicemente infiniti nello spazio ordinario." Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata (1867–1897) 22, no. 1 (1894): 261-311.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pittarelli, Giulio 1852 births 1934 deaths 19th-century Italian mathematicians 20th-century Italian mathematicians University of Naples Federico II alumni Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome