Salvatore Pincherle

He was born in Trieste and studied in Marseille. He was in Pisa at the Scuola Normale and then had a year of specialization in Berlin, where he followed Weierstrass' lessons and he imported his ideas and methods in Italy. He arrived in Bologna in 1880, after having taught in Palermo, and taught there for 55 years. He founded the Italian Mathematical Union and organized the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1928 in Bologna. The topic he cultivated for most of his life was the theory of functions of complex variables, however his fame is mainly due to his works on functional analysis. He started from Volterra's work, but approached this research direction from a complex point of view. He dealt with the functional dependencies that result from integral equations. In the last years of the 19th century he moved on to the study of distributive operations on which he published, together with Ugo Amaldi, "Le operazioni distributive" (1901).

(Source: "Il Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Bologna: Personale, strutture, attività di ricerca - Anno accademico 1988-89" a cura di M. Bernabei e P. Negrini, editrice CLUEB)