Pia Nalli
| Pia Nalli | |
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| Born |
10 February 1886 Palermo |
| Died | September 27, 1964 (aged 78) Catania |
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| Alma mater | University of Palermo |
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| Doctoral advisor | Giuseppe Bagnera |
| Doctoral students | Francesco Guglielmino |
| Other notable students | Gaetano Fichera |
Pia Maria Nalli (February 10, 1886 – September 27, 1964) was an Italian mathematician known for her work on the summability of Fourier series, on Morera's theorem for analytic functions of several variables and for finding the solution to the Fredholm integral equation of the third kind for the first time. Her research interests ranged from algebraic geometry to functional analysis and tensor analysis; she was a speaker at the 1928 International Congress of Mathematicians.
She is also remembered for her struggles against discrimination against women in the Italian university hiring system. A street in Rome is named after her.
Nalli was born on February 10, 1886, in Palermo, to a middle-class family with seven children. She studied at the University of Palermo, where she obtained a laurea in 1910 under the supervision of Giuseppe Bagnera, with a thesis concerning algebraic geometry, and in the same year joined the Circolo Matematico di Palermo.
After finishing her studies, Nalli assisted Bagnera in Palermo in 1911, and then began working as a school teacher. She completed a habilitation thesis in 1914 on the theory of integrals, and continued to work on Fourier analysis and Dirichlet series for the next several years.
Nalli served as assistant to Giuseppe Bagnera at the University of Palermo from 1 April 1911 to 16 November 1911. She then taught at a number of secondary schools, first in the girls' school at Avellino, then in Trapani, and from 16 November 1912 in the girls' technical school in Palermo. During this time Nalli continued her research, completing her thesis "Esposizione e confronto critico delle diverse definizioni proposte per l'integrale definito di una funzione limitata o no", a study of the theory of the integral based on recent work on the subject by Émile Borel, Henri Lebesgue Charles de la Vallée Poussin, Giuseppe Vitali and Arnaud Denjoy.
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