Mauro Picone, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mauro Picone

Italian Mathematician

Date of Birth: 02-May-1885

Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Date of Death: 11-Apr-1977

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Mauro Picone (2 May 1885 – 11 April 1977) was an Italian mathematician.
He is known for the Picone identity, the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem and being the founder of the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, presently named after him, the first applied mathematics institute ever founded.
He was also an outstanding teacher of mathematical analysis: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils.