Giuseppe Basso (1842–1895) 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.
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Life and work
Basso was born to a very poor family; he had to work with his father, a taylor, from very early age. Notwithstanding, after completing his studies in the school in Chivasso and in the high school in Turin with great success, he showed great determination to continue at university level.
In 1862, Basso was awarded the degree of Doctor of Physics by a thesis about
polarized light
Polarization (also polarisation) is a property applying to transverse waves that specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations. In a transverse wave, the direction of the oscillation is perpendicular to the direction of motion of the ...
. Few weeks ago he was appointed professor at the Military School in Turin.
[, MacTutor History of Mathematics.] Simultaneously he was professor of physics in 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 ...
, first in replacement of Gilberto Gobi, the full professor, and from 1872 as assistant and from 1878 as full professor.
Basso is remembered basically by his works in
physical optics
In physics, physical optics, or wave optics, is the branch of optics that studies interference, diffraction, polarization, and other phenomena for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid. This usage tends not to include effec ...
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19th-century Italian mathematicians
1842 births
1895 deaths
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