Pasquale del Pezzo
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Pasquale del Pezzo, Duke of Cajanello and Marquis of Campodisola (2 May 1859 – 20 June 1936), was a Neapolitan mathematician
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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 Swedish
writer Anne Charlotte Leffler
, sister of the great mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler (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 1913 till 1917. Starting in 1919 he became a senator of Italy
until his death.
He is remembered particularly for first describing what became known as a del Pezzo surface
.
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
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He was born in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
(where his father was a representative of the Neapolitan king) on 2 May 1859. He died in Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
on 20 June 1936. His wife was the Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
writer Anne Charlotte Leffler
Anne Charlotte Leffler
Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler, duchess of Cajanello , was a Swedish author, the daughter of the school principal John Olof Leffler and Gustava Wilhelmina Mittag...
, sister of the great mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler (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
Projective geometry
In mathematics, projective geometry is the study of geometric properties that are invariant under projective transformations. This means that, compared to elementary geometry, projective geometry has a different setting, projective space, and a selective set of basic geometric concepts...
, and remained at that University, as rector, faculty president, etc.
He was mayor of Naples from 1913 till 1917. Starting in 1919 he became a senator of Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
until his death.
He is remembered particularly for first describing what became known as a del Pezzo surface
Del Pezzo surface
In mathematics, a del Pezzo surface or Fano surface is a two-dimensional Fano variety, in other words a non-singular projective algebraic surface with ample anticanonical divisor class...
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