Luigi Berzolari (1863–1945) was an Italian

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Life and work

The son of an infantry officer, Berzolari studied at

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, under professor

Salvatore Pincherle Salvatore Pincherle (March 11, 1853 – July 10, 1936) was an Italian mathematician. He contributed significantly to (and arguably helped to found) the field of functional analysis, established the Italian Mathematical Union (Italian: "''Unio ...

. From 1880 to 1884 he studied at the

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, where he graduated in mathematics. He subsequently taught at high schools in Pavia and

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, keeping in touch with Pavia's university as an assistant docent. In 1888 he obtained the ''venia legendi'', and in 1892 the university's ''venia legendi''. In 1893 he obtained the chair of

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at University of Torino, from which he was transferred to the chair of

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in the university of Pavia in 1899. He remained in that position until he retired in 1935, except during 1924-1925, when he taught at the University of Milano. In Pavia, he was dean of the faculty of sciences and the university's rector from 1909-1913 and 1920-1922. He was president of the

Unione Matematica Italiana The Italian Mathematical Union ( it, Unione Matematica Italiana) is a mathematical society based in Italy. It was founded on December 7, 1922 by Luigi Bianchi, Vito Volterra, and most notably, Salvatore Pincherle, who became the Union's first P ...

and the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. Berzolari is remembered as chief editor of the ''Enciclopedia delle matematiche elementari'', a seven-volume encyclopedia devoted to mathematics, published between 1930 and 1953, edited by the ''Unione'' and which editorial direction was committed to Berzolari in 1909.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Berzolari, Luigi 19th-century Italian mathematicians 20th-century Italian mathematicians 1863 births 1949 deaths Presidents of the Italian Mathematical Union