Pietro De Martino or Di Martino (31 May 1707 – 28 January 1746) was an Italian
mathematician and
astronomer.
Biography
Born in
Faicchio
Faicchio is a small village in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, located about 50 km northeast of Naples and about 30 km northwest of Benevento.
Faicchio borders the following villages: Cusano Mutri, Gioia Sann ...
, he was brother of Angelo, professor first of
medical physics then of mathematics at the
University of Naples; and of
Nicola Antonio De Martino
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, professor di mathematics and director of the Real Corpo degli Ingegneri (Royal Engineers Corp) and Marine Guard. Pietro De Martino was a pupil of
Agostino Ariani Agostino may refer to:
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and of Giacinto De Cristoforo (1650-1730). In 1735 he was assigned of the astronomical and nautical chair at the University of Naples.
He disputed with
Roger Joseph Boscovich on the question if it is possible to gain a right result starting from a wrong
hypothesis.
He authored various works; his ''Nuove istituzioni di aritmetica pratica'', published originally in 1739 in Naples, had many reprints (the better known of the 1758; one also in
Turin in 1762).
He died in Naples in 1746.
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References
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1707 births
1746 deaths
18th-century Italian astronomers
18th-century Italian mathematicians
People from the Province of Benevento
Scientists from Naples
Academic staff of the University of Naples Federico II