The Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo Mauro Picone ( en, Institute for Calculus Applications "Mauro Picone"), abbreviated IAC, is an

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, part of the

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. It was founded in 1927 as a private research institute by

Mauro Picone Mauro Picone (2 May 1885 – 11 April 1977) was an Italian mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem and being the founder of the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, presently named after hi ...

, and as such it is considered the first applied and computational mathematics institute of such kind ever founded.

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The IAC was founded 1927 by Mauro Picone, while working at the

University of Naples Federico II The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

and at the Istituto Universitario Navale as professor of

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also contributed to the founding of the institute, by providing to his former '' Normale'' schoolfellow Picone the funding for the creation of the Institute by means of the

Banco di Napoli Banco di Napoli S.p.A., among the oldest banks in the world, was an Italian banking subsidiary of Intesa Sanpaolo group, as one of the 6 retail brands other than "Intesa Sanpaolo". It was acquired by the Italian banking group Sanpaolo IMI (the p ...

. It was only in 1932, when Picone moved from the University of Naples to the

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, that the Institute became part of the Italian National Research Council.See for example , , , , , : however many other published biographical and/or research achievements surveys on Mauro Picone cite this fact.

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*. ( en, Mauro Picone and the Institute for Calculus Applications) A survey paper on the contribution of Mauro Picone and his school to applied mathematics through the foundation and the direction of the "Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo". *. The

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*, previously published as . *. The chapter on Picone in a book collecting brief biographical sketches and bibliographies of the scientific works produced by the mathematicians who taught at the Parthenope University of Naples during their stay. *. An ample survey paper on results on the solutions of linear integral and partial differential equation obtained by the research team of Mauro Picone at the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, by using methods from

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. *. "'' en, Mauro Picone, a pioneer of modern analysis''" is an historical conference on the work and personality of Mauro Picone, pronounced by Gaetano Fichera. *. Fichera's "''last lesson''" of the course of higher analysis, given on the occasion of his retirement from university teaching in 1992. *. *. "''Mauro Picone and the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo''" is a brief historical survey of Picone's role in the founding of the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo: the Author is one of his pupils, former workers and then director of the institute. It was presented at the ''International congress in occasion of the celebration of the centenary of birth of Mauro Picone and Leonida Tonelli'' (held in

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on May 6–9, 1985): an English translation of the title of the conference is:-''The work of Leonida Tonelli and his influence on scientific thinking in this century''. *. This work completes the survey of with the same title, by elucidating the role of some scientists and adding a further bibliography. {{authority control Mathematical institutes Organizations established in 1927 Research institutes in Italy 1927 establishments in Italy

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