Lucio Lombardo-Radice was an Italian

Italy

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 mathematician

Mathematician

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. A student of Gaetano Scorza, Lombardo-Radice contributed to finite geometry

Finite geometry

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 and geometric combinatorics

Geometric combinatorics

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 together with Guido Zappa

Guido Zappa

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 and Beniamino Segre

Beniamino Segre

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, and wrote important works concerning the Non-Desarguesian plane

Non-Desarguesian plane

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. He was also a leading member of the Italian Communist Party

Italian Communist Party

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 and a member of its central committee.

The Istituto Tecnico Statale Commerciale "Lucio Lombardo Radice" per Programmatori con sezione Liceo Linguistico, a school in Rome, Italy, founded in 1982 as the XXV Istituto Tecnico Commerciale per Programmatori, was in 1992 renamed after Lombardo-Radice.