Salvatore Pincherle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian mathematician
Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1853
Place of Birth: Trieste, Friuli–Venezia Giulia
Date of Death: 10-Jul-1936
Profession: mathematician
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Salvatore Pincherle
- Salvatore Pincherle (March 11, 1853 – July 10, 1936) was an Italian mathematician.
- He contributed significantly to (and arguably helped to found) the field of functional analysis, established the Italian Mathematical Union (Italian: "Unione Matematica Italiana"), and was president of the Third International Congress of Mathematicians.
- The Pincherle derivative is named after him. Pincherle was born into a Jewish family in Trieste (then part of the Austrian Littoral) and spent his childhood in Marseille, France.
- After completing his basic schooling in Marseille, he left in 1869 to study mathematics at the University of Pisa, where he was a student under both Enrico Betti and Ulisse Dini.
- After he graduated in 1874, he taught at a school in Pavia until he received a scholarship in 1877. After winning the scholarship and studying abroad at the University of Berlin, Pincherle met Karl Weierstrass.
- Pincherle contributed to Weierstrass' theory of analytic functions, and in 1880, influenced by Weierstrass, he wrote an expository paper in the Giornale di Matematiche, which proved to be a significant paper in the field of analysis.
- Throughout his life, Pincherle's work greatly reflected the influence that Weierstrass had on him.
- He later collaborated with Vito Volterra and explored Laplace transforms and other parts of functional analysis. From 1880 until 1928, Pincherle was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bologna.
- In 1901, collaborating with Ugo Amaldi, he published his main scientific book, Le Operazioni Distributive e loro Applicazioni all'Analisi. In Bologna in 1922, he established the Italian Mathematical Union and became its first President and held the position until 1936.
- In 1924, he attended the Second International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Four years later, he became President of the Third International Congress and played a significant role in re-admitting German mathematicians after a ban imposed because of World War I.
- At this Congress, Jacques Hadamard declared in his review lecture Le développement et le rôle scientifique du Calcul fonctionnel that Pincherle was one of the most prominent founders of functional analysis.
- Following the Third Congress, Pincherle retired from university. In honor of the centenary of his birth, the Italian Mathematical Union edited a selection of 62 of his notes and treatises; they were published in 1954 in Rome.
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