Pia Nalli

Pia Nalli
Pia Nalli
Born(1886-02-10)10 February 1886
Palermo
Died27 September 1964(1964-09-27) (aged 78)
Catania
Alma materUniversity of Palermo
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Theses
  • Riduzione di un fascio di curve piane di genere uno, corrispondente a sé stesso in una trasformazione birazionale involutoria del piano[1]  (1911)
  • Esposizione e confronto critico delle diverse definizioni proposte per l'integrale definito[2]  (1914)
Doctoral advisorGiuseppe Bagnera
Notable studentsGaetano Fichera

Pia Maria Nalli (10 February 1886 – 27 September 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.[3] 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.[4] A street in Rome is named after her.

  1. ^ (Nalli 1911).
  2. ^ (Nalli 1914).
  3. ^ See (Fichera 1999, pp. 288–290).
  4. ^ See (Fichera 1978, pp. 55–58).