Onorato Nicoletti

Onorato Nicoletti (21 June 1872, Rieti – 31 December 1929, Pisa) was an Italian mathematician.[1]

Onoratio Nicoletti

Biography

Nicoletti received his laurea in 1894 from the Scuola Normale di Pisa. In 1898, he became a professor of infinitesmal calculus at the University of Modena. After two years, he returned to Pisa, where he was a teacher of algebra, and then, after the death of Ulisse Dini, of infinitesmal calculus.[2]

He published works in various fields of mathematics, including numerical analysis, infinitesmal analysis, the equations related to hermitian matrices, and differential equations. He made original contributions to Max Dehn's theory of the equivalence of polyhedra under polyhedral dissection and reassembly (scissors-congruence), extending and generalizing the theory with an entire class of new relations.

Nicoletti collaborated in the writing of Enciclopedia Hoepli delle Matematiche elementari e complementi (published from 1930 to 1951) with the contribution of two monographic articles: Forme razionali di una o più variabili (Rational forms of one or more variables) and Proprietà generali delle funzioni algebriche (General properties of algebraic functions).

A leading expert in mathematics education, he edited with Roberto Marcolongo a series of successful editions for secondary schools.

Nicoletti was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in Rome.[3]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Biografia sul Dizionario Treccani delle Scienze Fisiche".
  2. Nicoletti Onorato estesa biografia sul sito dell'Università di Pisa
  3. Nicoletti, O. (1909). "Sulla riduzione a forma canonica di un fascio di forme biliari e quadratiche" (PDF). In G. Castelnuovo (ed.). Atti del IV Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici (Roma, 6–11 Aprile 1908). vol. 2. pp. 163–168.
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