Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo Mauro Picone

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Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone"
Founder(s) Mauro Picone
Established1927
Formerly called
  • Istituto di Calcolo per l'Analisi Numerica (1927–1932) [1]
  • Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo (INAC) (1932–1975) [2]
Address
  • Via dei Taurini 19,
  • 00185 Roma
Location
Italy
Website http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it

The Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo Mauro Picone (English: Institute for Applied Calculus "Mauro Picone"), abbreviated IAC, is an applied mathematics institute, part of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. It was founded in 1927 as a private research institute by Mauro Picone, [2] and as such it is considered the first applied and computational mathematics institute of such kind ever founded. [3]

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Historical notes

The IAC was founded 1927 by Mauro Picone, [2] while working at the University of Naples Federico II and at the Istituto Universitario Navale as professor of infinitesimal calculus. [4] Luigi Amoroso also contributed to the founding of the institute, by providing to his former Normale schoolfellow Picone the funding for the creation of the Institute by means of the Banco di Napoli. [5] It was only in 1932, when Picone moved from the University of Naples to the Sapienza University of Rome, that the Institute became part of the Italian National Research Council. [6]

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Notes

  1. See (Ghizzetti 1986, p. 111).
  2. 1 2 3 See (Fichera 1995, pp. 10–11), (Fichera 1999, p. 297), (Ghizzetti 1986, p. 111).
  3. ( Fichera 1995 , pp. 10–11), ( Fichera 1999 , p. 297), ( Benzi 2005 , p. 3 of the preprint version) and the references cited in this latter one.
  4. See ( Ghizzetti 1986 , p. 111), ( De Angelis & Sbordone 1999 , p. 7), ( Fichera 1995 , pp. 10–11), ( Fichera 1999 , p. 297), Ghizzetti (1986 , p. 111) states explicitly his professorship, while De Angelis & Sbordone (1999 , p. 7) describes briefly his involvement in teaching at the Istituto Universitario Navale.
  5. See Fichera (1950 , p. 1), Fichera (1986 , p. 81), Fichera (1999 , p. 307) and Benzi (2005 , p. 3 of the preprint version).
  6. See for example ( Ghizzetti 1986 , p. 111), ( De Angelis & Sbordone 1999 , p. 7), Fichera (1986 , p. 81), ( Fichera 1999 , p. 307), ( Benzi 2005 , p. 3 of the preprint version), ( Benzi & Toscano 2014 , p. 114): however many other published biographical and/or research achievements surveys on Mauro Picone cite this fact.

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