Mauro Picone

Mauro Picone
Mauro Picone
Born	May 2, 1885(1885-05-02) Palermo, Italy
Died	April 11, 1977(1977-04-11) (aged 91) Roma, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Fields	Calculus of variation, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, differential geometry
Institutions	University of Cagliari, University of Catania, University of Naples Federico II, Università di Roma
Alma mater	Scuola Normale Superiore (1909)
Doctoral advisor	Luigi Bianchi
Doctoral students	see the teaching activity section
Known for	Picone identity, Sturm-Picone comparison theorem
Influenced	Partial differential equations, ordinary differential equations, mathematical analysis, numerical analysis.

Mauro Picone in 1903

Mauro Picone (2 May 1885 – 11 April 1977) was an Italian mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, for the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem and for being the founder of the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, presently named after him. He was also an outstandig teacher of mathematical analysis: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils.

Work

Teaching activity

His teaching activity is legendary in Italy:

• Luigi Amerio
• Renato Caccioppoli
• Gianfranco Cimmino
• Aldo Ghizzetti
• Ennio de Giorgi
• Gaetano Fichera
• Carlo Miranda
• Giuseppe Scorza-Dragoni

See also

• Renato Caccioppoli
• Lamberto Cesari
• Ennio de Giorgi
• Gaetano Fichera
• Picone identity
• Antonio Signorini
• Sturm-Picone comparison theorem

References

• Fichera, Gaetano (1978), "Mauro Picone", Atti dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, 13 5: 245–261 . The commemoration of Mauro Picone by Gaetano Fichera, one of his "allievi".
• Fichera, Gaetano (6–9 May 1985), "Mauro Picone, un pioniere dell'analisi d'oggi (Mauro Picone, a pioneer of modern analysis)", in Montalenti, G.; Amerio, L.; et als., Convegno celebrativo del centenario della nascita di Mauro Picone e Leonida Tonelli (International congress in occasion of the celebration of the centenary of birth of Mauro Picone and Leonida Tonelli), Atti dei Convegni Lincei, 77, Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, pp. 41–73, http://www.lincei.it/pubblicazioni/catalogo/volume.php?lg=e&rid=32847 .
• Mauro Picone at the Italian Wikipedia.

External links

• Guerraggio, Angelo; Nastasi, Pietro (2008–2010), "Mauro Picone (1885–1977)" (in Italian), Edizione Nazionale Mathematica Italiana, Scuola Normale Superiore, http://mathematica.sns.it/autori/1166/, retrieved April 13, 2011 . The entry about Mauro Picone at the Edizione Nazionale Matematica Italiana.
• Mauro Picone at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone": the institute he founded in 1922.

Persondata
Name	Picone, Mauro
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	2 May 1885
Place of birth	Palermo, Italy
Date of death	11 April 1977
Place of death	Roma, Italy