Barnaba Tortolini | |
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 Marble bust at Pincio, Rome | |
| Born | November 19, 1808 Rome |
| Died | August 24, 1874 (aged 65) |
| Citizenship | Italian |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Gregorian University |
| Known for | Annali di scienze matematiche e fisiche |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | mathematics |
| Institutions | Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide Pontifical Gregorian University University of Rome |
Barnaba Tortolini (19 November 1808 – 24 August 1874) was a 19th-century Italian priest and mathematician who played an early active role in advancing the scientific unification of the Italian states. He founded the first Italian scientific journal with an international presence and was a distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Rome for 30 years. As a mathematics researcher, he had more than one hundred mathematical papers to his credit in Italian, French, and German journals.