Biography:Ernesto Pascal

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Short description: Italian mathematician (1865–1940)
Ernesto Pascal
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Born(1865-02-07)February 7, 1865
Naples, Italy
DiedJanuary 25, 1940(1940-01-25) (aged 74)
Naples, Italy
Alma materUniversity of Naples
ChildrenMario Pascal
Alberto Pascal
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral studentsRenato Caccioppoli
Ljubomir Chakaloff
InfluencesFelix Klein

Ernesto Pascal (1865–1940) was an Italian mathematician.

Life and work

Pascal graduated in mathematics from the university of Naples in 1887. In the following two years he attended courses in the universities of Pisa and Göttingen; in the last one Pascal studied under Felix Klein who influenced him.[1] From 1890 to 1907 he was teaching at the university of Pavia and in 1907 he returned to the university of Naples were he taught until his death. Here, as Dean of the Faculty of Sciences he reorganised the teaching of mathematics, creating for each professorship a laboratory equipped with models and instruments.[2]

Pascal was remembered for his work on elliptic functions based on Jacobi theta function.[3]

References

  1. Giacardi 2010, p. 3.
  2. Giacardi 2013, p. 13.
  3. Ortiz 2004, pp. 898–899.

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