Pasquale del Pezzo, Duke of

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and Marquis of Campodisola (2 May 1859 – 20 June 1936), was an Italian mathematician. He was born in Berlin (where his father was a representative of the Neapolitan king) on 2 May 1859. He died in Naples on 20 June 1936. His wife was the

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, sister of the great mathematician

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(1846–1927). At the University of Naples, he received first a law degree in 1880 and then in 1882 a math degree. He became a pre-eminent professor at that university, teaching projective geometry, and remained at that University, as rector, faculty president, etc. He was mayor of Naples from 1914 to 1917. Starting in 1919 he became a

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until his death. He is remembered particularly for first describing what became known as a

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References

* *G. Gallucci, Rend. R. Acc. delle Scienze Fisiche e Mat. di Napoli, 8, 1938, 162–167.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:del Pezzo, Pasquale 1859 births 1936 deaths 19th-century Italian mathematicians Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy Algebraic geometers Italian algebraic geometers