Vincenzo Flauti (1782–1863) was an Italian
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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Life and work
Flauti studied at the ''Liceo del Salvatore'', the school led by
Nicola Fergola. Although he began medical studies, he changed them to mathematics influenced by his master Fergola. He taught at the
University of Naples
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 ...
from 1803 to 1860, succeeding Fergola in his chair in 1812.
In 1860, when the
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was conquered by Giuseppe Garibaldi and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy, Flauti was excluded from the Academy of Sciences of Naples and from his docent duties, because he had been a supporter of the
Bourbon monarchy.
Flauti was the leader of the synthetic school of mathematics founded by Fergola. In 1807, jointly with Felice Giannattasio, he was entrusted by the Bourbon government to write a mathematics textbook for all schoolchildren in the kingdom.
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19th-century Italian mathematicians
1782 births
1863 deaths
University of Naples Federico II faculty
Mathematics educators
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