Paolo Pizzetti (July 24, 1860 – April 14, 1918)[1][2][3] was an Italian geodesist, astronomer, geophysicist and mathematician. He studied engineering in Rome, graduating in 1880.[1][2][3] He remained in Rome and assisted Giuseppe Pisati and Enrico Pucci with their absolute determination of gravity.[1][2][3] In 1886, he became Associate Professor of Geodesy at the University of Genoa where he stayed until becoming Professor of Geodesy at the University of Pisa in 1900.[1][2][3] He stayed in Pisa until his death in 1918.
He wrote Höhere Geodäsie (Higher Geodesy)[1][2] as well as many important works on the theory of errors. He was a member of Accademia dei Lincei and the academy in Turin.[2][3] He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1908 at Rome.[4] A crater on the far side of the Moon, Pizzetti, is named after him.[1]
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edit- ^ a b c d e f http://tzamfirescu.tricube.de/TZamfirescu-183.pdf (Paolo Pizzetti: The forgotten originator of triangle comparison geometry)
- ^ a b c d e f Società Italiana di Storia delle Matematiche - Online Biography of Paolo Pizzetti (Italian) Archived 2012-05-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e Mathematica Italiana - Online Biography of Paolo Pizzetti (Italian)
- ^ Pizzetti. P. (1897). "Sulla riduzione delle latitudini e longitudini al livello del mare". Atti del IV Congresso internazionale dei matematici (Roma, 6–11 Aprile 1908). ICM proceedings. Vol. 3. University of Toronto Press. p. 198.
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