Biography:Lucio Lombardo-Radice
Lucio Lombardo-Radice (Catania, 10 July 1916; Brussels, 21 November 1982) was an Italian mathematician. A student of Gaetano Scorza,[1] Lombardo-Radice contributed to finite geometry and geometric combinatorics together with Guido Zappa and Beniamino Segre, and wrote important works concerning the Non-Desarguesian plane. He was also a leading member of the Italian Communist Party and a member of its central committee.[2] He had a long professional and political friendship with German natural scientist and dissident Robert Havemann.[3]
Lombardo-Radice's parents were Giuseppe Lombardo Radice and Gemma Harasim.[4] His children included the writer Marco Lombardo Radice (it) and actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice.[5][6]
The Istituto Tecnico Statale Commerciale "Lucio Lombardo Radice" per Programmatori, a school in Rome, Italy, founded in 1982 as the XXV Istituto Tecnico Commerciale per Programmatori, was in 1992 renamed after Lombardo-Radice. It is now named Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Lombardo Radice[7]
References
- ↑ Lucio Lombardo Radice at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Urban, George R. (1978), Eurocommunism: its roots and future in Italy and elsewhere, Universe Books, p. 279, ISBN 978-0-87663-329-8, https://archive.org/details/eurocommunismits0000unse/page/279.
- ↑ "»Ich bin immer ein Genosse«" (in de). 2022-12-13. https://www.akweb.de/ausgaben/688/ich-bin-immer-ein-genosse-sechs-schlaglichter-auf-mathematik-und-politik/.
- ↑ "LOMBARDO-RADICE, Giuseppe". Treccani. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giuseppe-lombardo-radice_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ↑ "Giovanni Lombardo Radice: nel suo genere, un mostro" (in it). La Repubblica. 28 November 2016. https://www.repubblica.it/venerdi/interviste/2016/11/28/news/giovanni_lombardo_radice_un_mostro_nel_suo_genere-153015808/. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ↑ "LOMBARDO RADICE, Marco". Treccani. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/marco-lombardo-radice_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ↑ Brief history of ITC Lucio Lombardo Radice .
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