Biography:Vincenzo Flauti

Vincenzo Flauti
Born	(1782-04-04)April 4, 1782 Naples, Kingdom of Naples, today Italy
Died	June 20, 1863(1863-06-20) (aged 81) Naples, Italy
Alma mater	University of Naples
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Naples
Influenced	Nicola Fergola

Vincenzo Flauti (1782–1863) was an Italian mathematician.

Life and work

Flauti studied at the Liceo del Salvatore, the school led by Nicola Fergola. Although he began medical studies, he changed them to mathematics influenced by his master Fergola. He taught at the University of Naples from 1803 to 1860, succeeding Fergola in his chair in 1812.

In 1860, when the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was conquered by Giuseppe Garibaldi and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy, Flauti was excluded from the Academy of Sciences of Naples and from his docent duties, because he had been a supporter of the Bourbon monarchy.

Flauti was the leader of the synthetic school of mathematics founded by Fergola. In 1807, jointly with Felice Giannattasio, he was entrusted by the Bourbon government to write a mathematics textbook for all schoolchildren in the kingdom.

Bibliography

• Ferraro, Giovanni (2008). "Manuali di geometria elementare nella Napoli preunitaria (1806–1860)" (in italian). History of Education & Children's Literature 3 (2): 103–139. ISSN 1971-1093. https://www.academia.edu/download/38196355/HECL_2-2008_Ferraro.pdf. 
• Ferraro, Giovanni (2012). "Excellens in arte non debet mori" (in italian). HAL: 1–16. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00682088/. 
• Mazzotti, Massimo (1998). "The Geometers of God: Mathematics and Reaction in the Kingdom of Naples". Isis 89 (4): 674–701. doi:10.1086/384160. ISSN 0021-1753. https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/10036/31212/1/paper02.pdf. 
• Mazzotti, Massimo (2002). "The Making of the Modern Engineer". in Mordechai Feingold. History of Universities: Volume XVII. Oxford University Press. pp. 121–161. ISBN 978-0-19-925636-5. https://books.google.cat/books?id=ld3GnPT920QC. 

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Vincenzo Flauti", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Flauti.html .
• Menghini, Marta (1997). "FLAUTI, Vincenzo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-flauti_(Dizionario-Biografico). 
• "VINCENZO FLAUTI". Matematica PRISTEM – Università Bocconi. http://matematica-old.unibocconi.it/storia/letteraf/flauti.htm.