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Oct 08, 1859 Avellino, Campania, Italy Died on 03 Nov 1946 (aged 87)
Italian mathematician
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About Federico Amodeo
- Federico Amodeo (8 October 1859, Avellino – 3 November 1946, Naples) was an Italian mathematician, specializing in projective geometry, and a historian of mathematics. He received in 1883 his Ph.D.
- (laurea) in mathematics from the University of Naples, where he became an instructor (libero docente) and from 1885 to 1923 taught projective geometry.
- He also taught as a professor in Naples at the Istituto Tecnico "Gianbattista Della Porta" from 1890 to 1923, when he retired.
- In 1890–1891 he visited the geometers at the University of Turin.As a historian, he specialized in the history of mathematics in Naples before 1860, which he explicated in a two-volume work entitled Vita matematica napoletana; volume I (1905), volume II (1924).
- At the University of Naples from 1905 to 1922 he taught a course on the history of mathematics.Amodeo was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900 at Paris and again in 1908 in Rome.
- He was elected a member of the Accademia Pontaniana.
