Michele Cipolla, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michele Cipolla

Italian mathematician

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1880

Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Date of Death: 07-Sep-1947

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Michele Cipolla (28 October 1880, Palermo – 7 September 1947, Palermo) was an Italian mathematician, mainly specializing in number theory. He was a professor of Algebraic Analysis at the University of Catania and, later, the University of Palermo.
He developed (among other things) a theory for sequences of sets and Cipolla's algorithm for finding square roots modulo a prime number.
He also solved the problem of binomial congruence.