Lucio Lombardo-Radice (

Catania Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by ...

, 10 July 1916;

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

, 21 November 1982) 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 ...

. A student of

Gaetano Scorza Bernardino Gaetano Scorza (29 September 1876, in Morano Calabro – 6 August 1939, in Rome) was an Italian mathematician working in algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariat ...

, Lombardo-Radice contributed to

finite geometry Finite is the opposite of infinite. It may refer to: * Finite number (disambiguation) * Finite set, a set whose cardinality (number of elements) is some natural number * Finite verb, a verb form that has a subject, usually being inflected or marked ...

and geometric combinatorics together with Guido Zappa and

Beniamino Segre Beniamino Segre (16 February 1903 – 2 October 1977) was an Italian mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to algebraic geometry and one of the founders of finite geometry. Life and career He was born and studied in Turin ...

, and wrote important works concerning the

Non-Desarguesian plane In mathematics, a non-Desarguesian plane is a projective plane that does not satisfy Desargues' theorem (named after Girard Desargues), or in other words a plane that is not a Desarguesian plane. The theorem of Desargues is true in all projective s ...

. He was also a leading member of the

Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy. The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). ...

and a member of its central committee. Lombardo-Radice's parents were

Giuseppe Lombardo Radice Giuseppe Lombardo Radice (Catania, June 24, 1879 - Cortina d'Ampezzo, August 16, 1938) was an Italian pedagogist and philosopher. Early life and career He was born in Catania on June 24, 1879 (but his birth was registered late, on June 28) to Lucia ...

and

Gemma Harasim Gemma Harasim (1876 in Fiume – 1961 in Rome) was a known pedagogical writer from Fiume. From 1907 to 1909, she got a scholarship from the municipality of Fiume to study at the University of Florence. There she got in contact with the intell ...

. His children included the writer and actor

Giovanni Lombardo Radice Giovanni Lombardo Radice (born 23 September 1954, Rome, Italy) is an Italian film actor, better known to audiences as John Morghen. He first began his career in theater before he starred in Ruggero Deodato's ''The House on the Edge of the Park'' ...

. The Istituto Tecnico Statale Commerciale "Lucio Lombardo Radice" per Programmatori, a school in

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, founded in 1982 as the XXV Istituto Tecnico Commerciale per Programmatori, was in 1992 renamed after Lombardo-Radice. It is now named Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Lombardo RadiceBrief history of ITC Lucio Lombardo Radice
.

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