# Federico Amodeo

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**Federico Amodeo** (8 October 1859, [Avellino](/source/Avellino) – 3 November 1946, [Naples](/source/Naples)) was an Italian mathematician, specializing in [projective geometry](/source/Projective_geometry), and a historian of mathematics.

He received in 1883 his Ph.D. (*laurea*) in mathematics from the [University of Naples](/source/University_of_Naples_Federico_II), where he became an instructor (*libero docente*) and from 1885 to 1923 taught projective geometry.[1] He also taught as a professor in Naples at the Istituto Tecnico "Gianbattista Della Porta" from 1890 to 1923, when he retired.[1] In 1890–1891 he visited the geometers at the [University of Turin](/source/University_of_Turin).[2]

As a historian, he specialised in the history of mathematics in Naples before 1860, which he explicated in a two-volume work entitled *Vita matematica napoletana*; volume I (1905), volume II (1924). At the University of Naples from 1905 to 1922, he taught a course on the history of mathematics.[1]

Amodeo was an [invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians](/source/Invited_speaker_at_the_International_Congress_of_Mathematicians) in 1900 at Paris[3] and again in 1908 in Rome. He was elected a member of the [Accademia Pontaniana](/source/Accademia_Pontaniana).

## Works

- *Complementi di analisi algebrica elementare*, 1909[4]
- [*Lezione di geometria proiettiva*](http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008892579), 3rd edition, 2nd reprinting, 1920[5]
- *Vita matematica napoletana*, Napoli; [*volume I*](http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007077921). R. Tip. F. Giannini. 1905., *volume II*. 1924.
- *Sulla storia della prospettiva: Breve risposta alla nota del socio corrispondente [Gino Loria](/source/Gino_Loria) letta nella tornata dell'8 gennaio 1933*, Napoli, Tipografia dell'Ospedale Psichiatrico Provinciale Leonardo Bianchi
- *Lo sviluppo della prospettiva in Francia nel secolo XVII: memoria letta all'Accademia Pontaniana di Napoli nella tornata del 25 giugno 1933*, Napoli, Tipografia dell'Ospedale Psichiatrico Provinciale Leonardo Bianchi, 1933
- *Origine e sviluppo della geometria proiettiva*, Napoli, Editore B. Pellerano, 1939
- *Sintesi storico-critica della geometria delle curve algebriche*, Conte editore Napoli 1945

## References

1. Dauben, Joseph W. & Scriba, Christoph (eds.) (2002). ["Amodeo, Federico"](https://books.google.com/books?id=oXjMYIonXTYC&pg=PA353). *Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development*. Birkhäuser Verlag. p. 353. ISBN 978-3-7643-6167-9.

1. Marchisotto, Elena Anne & Smith, James (2007). ["Amodeo, Federico"](https://books.google.com/books?id=zZoYihwdxDwC&pg=PA62). *The Legacy of Mario Pieri in Geometry and Arithmetic*. Springer. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-8176-4603-5.

1. ["*Coup d'Oeil sur les courbes algèbriques au point de vue de la gonalité* par Federico Amodeo"](https://books.google.com/books?id=cF1tAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA313). *Compte rendu du deuxième Congrès international des mathématiciens tenu à Paris du 6 au 12 Aout 1900*. Vol. Tome 2. 1902. pp. 313–326.

1. Dowling, L. Wayland (1911). ["Review: *Complementi di Analisi algebrica elementare* by Federico Amodeo"](https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1911-17-05/S0002-9904-1911-02049-3/S0002-9904-1911-02049-3.pdf). *Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.*. **17**: 261–262. [doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1911-02049-3](https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1911-02049-3)

1. Moore, C.L.E. (1923). ["Review: *Lezione di Geometria Proiettiva* by Federico Amodeo"](https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1923-29-02/S0002-9904-1923-03670-7/S0002-9904-1923-03670-7.pdf). *Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.*. **29**: 85–86. [doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1923-03670-7](https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1923-03670-7)

## External links

- [Biografia](https://web.archive.org/web/20120728205843/http://www.dm.unito.it/sism/m_italiani/biografie/tricomi/amodeo.html) at SISM website
- [Saggio sulla matematica tra il 1800 e il 1950](https://web.archive.org/web/20060513215616/http://www2.math.unifi.it/~archimede/matematicaitaliana/schede_opere/saggio.html#X)

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