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Lucio Lombardo-Radice

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Lucio Lombardo-Radice

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1916-07-10 (Catania)
Died
1982-11-21 (Brussels) age 66
Nationality
Italy
Languages
Italian
Residence History
Italy

Career

Occupations
mathematician
Active Years
1938-1982
Affiliations
Italian Communist Party
Memberships
Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party
Influenced By
Gaetano Scorza, Guido Zappa, Beniamino Segre
Influenced
Robert Havemann

Education

University of Palermo
Faculty of Sciences / Department of Mathematics
Degree: Laurea
Year of Graduation: 1938
Country: Italy
Student of Gaetano Scorza

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Papers on Non-Desarguesian plane

Mathematics

Important works concerning the Non-Desarguesian plane. Contributions to finite geometry and geometric combinatorics.

finite geometry

Legacy

Italian mathematician who contributed to finite geometry and geometric combinatorics as a student of Gaetano Scorza. Leading member of the Italian Communist Party and its central committee. Long professional and political friendship with Robert Havemann. A school in Rome is named after him.

In Popular Culture

  • The Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Lombardo Radice in Rome is named after him.

Trivia

  • Parents were Giuseppe Lombardo Radice and Gemma Harasim.
  • Children included writer Marco Lombardo Radice and actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice.