Mauro Picone was an Italian

Italy

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 mathematician

Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

. He is known for the Picone identity

Picone identity

In mathematics, in the field of ordinary differential equations, the Picone identity, named after Mauro Picone, is a classical result about homogeneous linear second order differential equations...

, for the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem

Sturm-Picone comparison theorem

In mathematics, in the field of ordinary differential equations, the Sturm–Picone comparison theorem, named after Jacques Charles François Sturm and Mauro Picone, is a classical theorem which provides criteria for the oscillation and non-oscillation of solutions of certain linear differential...

 and for being the founder of the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, presently named after him. He was also an outstandig teacher of mathematical analysis

Mathematical analysis

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: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils.

See also

• Renato Caccioppoli
  Renato Caccioppoli
  Renato Caccioppoli was an Italian mathematician.- Biography :Born in Naples, Campania, he was the son of Giuseppe Caccioppoli , a surgeon, and his second wife Sofia Bakunin , daughter of the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin. After earning his diploma in 1921, he enrolled in the department of...
  
  
• Lamberto Cesari
  Lamberto Cesari
  Lamberto Cesari was an Italian mathematician naturalized in the United States.- Biography :...
  
  
• Ennio de Giorgi
  Ennio de Giorgi
  -References:. The first paper about SBV functions and related variational problems.. The first note published by De Giorgi describing his approach to Caccioppoli sets.. The first complete exposition by De Giorgi of the theory of Caccioppoli sets.. An advanced text, oriented to the theory of minimal...
  
  
• Gaetano Fichera
  Gaetano Fichera
  Gaetano Fichera was an Italian mathematician, working in mathematical analysis, linear elasticity, partial differential equations and several complex variables...
  
  
• Picone identity
  Picone identity
  In mathematics, in the field of ordinary differential equations, the Picone identity, named after Mauro Picone, is a classical result about homogeneous linear second order differential equations...
  
  
• Antonio Signorini
  Antonio Signorini
  - Research activity :His scientific production const of more than 114 works, being papers, monographs and textbooks, 17 of which have been collected in his "Opere Scelte".- Teaching activity :...
  
  
• Sturm-Picone comparison theorem
  Sturm-Picone comparison theorem
  In mathematics, in the field of ordinary differential equations, the Sturm–Picone comparison theorem, named after Jacques Charles François Sturm and Mauro Picone, is a classical theorem which provides criteria for the oscillation and non-oscillation of solutions of certain linear differential...
  
  

External links

. The entry about Mauro Picone at the Edizione Nazionale Matematica Italiana.

• Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone": the institute he founded in 1922.