Renato Caccioppoli
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Italy
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mathematician
Mathematician
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Born in Naples
Naples
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, Campania
Campania
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, he was the son of Giuseppe Caccioppoli (1852–1947), a surgeon
Surgeon
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, and his second wife Sofia Bakunin (1870–1956), daughter of the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism. He has also often been called the father of anarchist theory in general. Bakunin grew up near Moscow, where he moved to study philosophy and began to read the French Encyclopedists,...
. After earning his diploma in 1921, he enrolled in the department of engineering, but in November, 1923 changed to mathematics. Immediately after earning his laurea
Laurea
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, in 1925, he became the assistant of Mauro Picone
Mauro Picone
Mauro Picone was an Italian mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, for the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem and for being the founder of the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, presently named after him...
, who in that year was called to the University of Naples, where he remained until 1932.
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