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]
Lombardo-Radice's parents were Gemma Harasim.[3] His children included the writer and actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice.[4][5]
andThe 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 name Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Lombardo Radice[6]
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.
- ^ "LOMBARDO-RADICE, Giuseppe". Treccani. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ "Giovanni Lombardo Radice: nel suo genere, un mostro". La Repubblica (in Italian). 28 November 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ "LOMBARDO RADICE, Marco". Treccani. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ Brief history of ITC Lucio Lombardo Radice Archived 2009-08-05 at the Wayback Machine.
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