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Gino Loria

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Gino Loria · Science & Medicine

What

Historian of mathematics and geometry

When

1862, Mantua, Italy — 1954, Genoa, Italy

Where

Italy

Biography

Gino Loria is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Historian of mathematics and geometry

How & why

Loria was an Italian mathematician and one of the foremost historians of mathematics of his era, author of comprehensive histories of Greek and pre-Greek geometry and of curves and mathematical instruments. He held the chair of higher geometry at Genoa. He was born into a Jewish family and was affected by Italy's Fascist racial laws.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Historian of mathematics and geometry

1862

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics