Laura Pisati Explained

Laura Pisati (1869/1870[1] - 30 March 1908) was an Italian mathematician.[2] [3] She was the first Italian to join the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV), in 1905, and in 1908 became the first woman invited to deliver a lecture at International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM).[4] [5]

Pisati was born in Ancona, and worked as a teacher at a secondary school for girls in Rome beginning in 1897. She graduated from Sapienza University of Rome in 1905.[5] She died young a few days before the 1908 Congress in Rome,[6] and a few days before her intended wedding to Italian physicist and electrical engineer Giovanni Giorgi, who had mentored her as a master's student.[5] Her work for the Congress was titled "Saggio di una teoria sintetica delle funzioni di variabile complessa" ["An Essay on a Synthetic Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable"], and was presented by Roberto Marcolongo.[5] [7] [8]

Her geometry textbook Elementi di geometria ad uso delle scuole medie inferiori, published in 1907, was part of a movement in Italian teaching of the time reacting against a presentation of the material focusing on intuition and hands-on experimentation, as had become popular beginning in the 1880s, and returning to a style of teaching geometry that included more rigorous proofs. In her preface, Pisati wrote that it would be a mistake to omit formal proofs and that it is not any more difficult to include this material.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: La tragedia de Laura Pisati . Matemáticas y sus fronteras . Madri+d . 31 January 2023 . Spanish.
  2. Web site: Pisati Laura Scienza a due voci. 2020-08-16. scienzaa2voci.unibo.it.
  3. Web site: Pisati Laura Documents Indexed: 4 Publications since 1905, including 1 Book. 2020-08-16. zbmath.org/.
  4. Moore . C. L. E.. Clarence Lemuel Elisha Moore . The fourth International Congress of Mathematicians:sectional meetings. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.. 1908 . 15 . 8–43. 1. 10.1090/S0002-9904-1908-01685-9. free.
  5. Book: Mihaljević. Helena. Roy. Marie-Françoise. Marie-Françoise Roy . Araujo. Carolina. Carolina Araujo (mathematician). Benkart. Georgia. Georgia Benkart . Praeger. Cheryl E.. Cheryl Praeger . Tanbay. Betül. Betül Tanbay . A Data Analysis of Women's Trails Among ICM Speakers. 10.1007/978-3-030-21170-7_5. 111–128. Springer International Publishing. Association for Women in Mathematics Series. World Women in Mathematics 2018. 2019. 1903.02543. 70349983.
  6. Book: Curbera . Guillermo P. . Mathematicians of the World, Unite!: The International Congress of Mathematicians — A Human Endeavor. CRP Press . 2009 . 44 . ROME 1908. https://books.google.com/books?id=9uDqBgAAQBAJ&q=laura+pisati&pg=PA44. 978-1-4398-6512-5.
  7. Bryan. G. H.. George H. Bryan. April 1908. 10.1038/077582c0. 2008. Nature. 582–584. The international Mathematical Congress at Rome. 77. free.
  8. Furinghetti. Fulvia. October 2008. 10.1007/s11858-008-0131-y. 4. ZDM. 529–543. The emergence of women on the international stage of mathematics education. 40. 145119304. 11567/235489. free.
  9. Book: Menghini, Marta. 2009. The teaching of intuitive geometry in early 1900s Italian Middle School: Programs, mathematicians’ views and praxis. K.. Bjarnadóttir. F.. Furinghetti. G.. Schubring. Dig where you stand. 139–151. Reykjavik. School of Education, University of Iceland.

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