Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo Mauro Picone

Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone"

Founder(s)	Mauro Picone
Established	1927
Formerly called	Istituto di Calcolo per l'Analisi Numerica (1927–1932)[1] Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo (INAC) (1932–1975)[2]
Location	Italy
Address	Via dei Taurini 19, 00185 Roma
Website	http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it

The Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo Mauro Picone (English: Institute for Calculus Applications "Mauro Picone", abbreviated IAC, is an applied mathematics institute, part of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. It was founded in 1927 as a private research institute by Mauro Picone,^[2] and as such it is considered the first applied mathematics institute of such kind ever founded.^[3]

Historical notes

The IAC was founded 1927 by Mauro Picone,^[2] while working an the University of Naples Federico II and at the Istituto Universitario Navale as professor of infinitesimal calculus.^[4] Luigi Amoroso also contributed to the founding of the institute, by providing to his former Normale schoolfellow Picone the funding for the creation of the Institute by means of the Banco di Napoli.^[5] It was only in 1932, when Picone moved from the University of Naples to the Sapienza University of Rome, that the Institute became part of the Italian National Research Council.^[6]

See also

• Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi

Notes

1. See (Ghizzetti 1986, p. 111).
2. See (Fichera 1995, pp. 10–11), (Fichera 1999, p. 297), (Ghizzetti 1986, p. 111).
3. (Fichera 1995, pp. 10–11), (Fichera 1999, p. 297), (Benzi 2005, p. 3 of the preprint version) and the references cited in this latter one.
4. See (Ghizzetti 1986, p. 111), (De Angelis & Sbordone 1999, p. 7), (Fichera 1995, pp. 10–11), (Fichera 1999, p. 297), Ghizzetti (1986, p. 111) states explicitly the his professorship, while De Angelis & Sbordone (1999, p. 7) describe briefly his involvement in teaching at the Istituto Universitario Navale.
5. See Fichera (1950, p. 1), Fichera (1986, p. 81), Fichera (1999, p. 307) and Benzi (2005, p. 3 of the preprint version).
6. See for example (Ghizzetti 1986, p. 111), (De Angelis & Sbordone 1999, p. 7), Fichera (1986, p. 81), (Fichera 1999, p. 307), (Benzi 2005, p. 3 of the preprint version), (Benzi & Toscano 2005, p. 114): however many other published biographical and/or research achievements surveys on Mauro Picone cite this fact.

References

• Benzi, Michele (2005), "Gianfranco Cimmino's Contributions to Numerical Mathematics", in Pini, Bruno, Atti del Seminario di Analisi Matematica, Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita` di Bologna. Volume Speciale: Ciclo di Conferenze in Memoria di Gianfranco Cimmino, Marzo-Aprile 2004, Bologna: Tecnoprint, pp. 87–109. The preprint version of the original paper is downloadable from the author's academic web page].
• Benzi, Michele; Toscano, Elena (May 2014), "Mauro Picone, Sandro Faedo, and the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations in Italy (1928–1953)", Numerical Algorithms, 66 (1): 105–145, doi:10.1007/s11075-013-9727-6, MR 3197360, Zbl 06302065, previously published as Mauro Picone, Sandro Faedo, and the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations in Italy (1928–1953) (PDF), Math/CS Technical Report, TR-2013-003, March 2013, p. 33.
• De Angelis, P. L.; Sbordone, C., eds. (1999), "Mauro Picone (1885–1977)", Matematici all'Istituto Universitario Navale (1926 – 1976) [Mathematicians at the Istituto Universitario Navale (1926 – 1976)] (in Italian), Napoli: Istituto Universitario Navale/RCE Edizioni, pp. 7–8. The chapter on Picone in a book collecting brief biographical sketches and bibliographies of the scientific works produced by the mathematicians who taught at the Parthenope University of Naples during their stay.
• Fichera, Gaetano (1950), "Risultati concernenti la risoluzione delle equazioni funzionali lineari dovuti all'Istituto Nazionale per le applicazioni del calcolo" [Results concerning the solutions of linear functional equations due to the National Institute for Calculus Applications], Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Memorie. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali, Serie VIII (in Italian), 3 (1): 1–81, MR 0036409, Zbl 0066.09902. An ample survey paper on results on the solutions of linear integral and partial differential equation obtained by the research team of Mauro Picone at the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, by using methods from functional analysis.
• Fichera, Gaetano (1986), "Mauro Picone, un pioniere dell'analisi d'oggi", in Montalenti, G.; Amerio, L.; Acquaro, G.; Baiada, E.; et al., Convegno celebrativo del centenario della nascita di Mauro Picone e Leonida Tonelli (Roma 6–9 May 1985) [International congress in occasion of the celebration of the centenary of birth of Mauro Picone and Leonida Tonelli (Rome 6–9 May 1985)], Atti dei Convegni Lincei (in Italian), 77, Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, pp. 75–88. "English: Mauro Picone, a pioneer of modern analysis" is an historical conference on the work and personality of Mauro Picone, pronounced by Gaetano Fichera.
• Fichera, Gaetano (1995), "L'ultima lezione" [The last lesson], Rendiconti della Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Memorie di Matematica e Applicazioni (in Italian), 19 (1): 1–24, MR 1387547. Fichera's "last lesson" of the course of higher analysis, given on the occasion of his retirement from university teaching in 1992.
• Fichera, Gaetano (1999), "L'analisi matematica in Italia fra le due guerre" [Mathematical analysis in Italy between the two wars], Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rendiconti Lincei, Matematica e Applicazioni, IX (in Italian), 10 (4): 279–312.
• Ghizzetti, Aldo (1986), "Mauro Picone e l'Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo", in Montalenti, G.; Amerio, L.; Acquaro, G.; Baiada, E.; et al., Convegno celebrativo del centenario della nascita di Mauro Picone e Leonida Tonelli (6–9 maggio 1985), Atti dei Convegni Lincei (in Italian), 77, Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, pp. 111–116. "Mauro Picone and the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo" is a brief historical survey of Picone's role in the founding of the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo: the Author is one of his pupils, former workers and then director of the institute. It was presented at the International congress in occasion of the celebration of the centenary of birth of Mauro Picone and Leonida Tonelli (held in Rome on May 6–9, 1985): an English translation of the title of the conference is:-The work of Leonida Tonelli and his influence on scientific thinking in this century.
• Miranda, Carlo (July–December 1950), "Risultati concernenti la risoluzione delle equazioni funzionali lineari dovuti all'Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo" [Results regarding the solution of linear functional equations due to the National Institute for Calculus Applications], Rendiconti di Matematica e delle sue Applicazioni, 5 (in Italian), 9 (3–4): 346–353, MR 0041759, Zbl 0040.35304. This work completes the survey of Fichera (1950) with the same title, by elucidating the role of some scientists and adding a further bibliography.