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Citizenship
  
Italian

Name
  
Guido Zappa


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Born
  
7 December 1915 Naples, Italy (
1915-12-07
)

Alma mater
  
Scuola Normale Superiore

Died
  
March 17, 2015, Florence, Italy

Education
  
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Known for
  
Algebraic geometry, Group theory

Academic advisors
  
Francesco Severi

Academic advisor
  
Francesco Severi

Institutions
  
University of Florence

Guido Zappa (7 December 1915 – 17 March 2015) was an Italian mathematician and a noted group theorist: his other main research interests were geometry and also the history of mathematics. Zappa was particularly known for some examples of algebraic curves that strongly influenced the ideas of Francesco Severi.

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Honors

He was elected ordinary non resident member of the Accademia Pontaniana on June 16, 1949. On June 3, 1951 he was elected corresponding member to the class of mathematical sciences of the Società Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti in Napoli: subsequently, he became ordinary member (2 June 1951) and ordinary non resident member (15 December 1953). On 14 October 1960 he was elected corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: he became national member of the same academy on March 21, 1977.

Selected publications

  • Zappa, Guido (1965), Fondamenti di teoria dei gruppi. Volume primo, Monografie matematiche del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (in Italian), 13, Roma: Edizioni Cremonese, pp. XX+291, MR 0197538, Zbl 0135.03402 . "Fundamentals of group theory. First volume" (English translation of the title) is the first part of monograph in group theory dealing extensively with many of its aspects.
  • Zappa, Guido (1970), Fondamenti di teoria dei gruppi. Volume secondo, Monografie matematiche del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (in Italian), 18, Rome: Edizioni Cremonese, pp. XXI+411, MR 258926, Zbl 0201.03001 . "Fundamentals of group theory. Second volume" (English translation of the title) is the second part of monograph in group theory dealing extensively with many of its aspects.
  • Zappa, Guido (1984), "La scuola matematica di Francesco Severi intorno al 1940" [The mathematical school of Francesco Severi around 1940] (PDF), Rivista di Matematica della Università di Parma, (4) (in Italian), 10*: 11–14, MR 0777309, Zbl 0562.01015 . This work describes the research activity at the Sapienza University of Rome and at the (at that time newly created) "Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi" from the end of the 1930s to the early 1940s.

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