Federico Amodeo
Federico Amodeo was an Italian mathematician, specializing in projective geometry, and a historian of mathematics.
He received in 1883 his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of [Naples Federico II|University of Naples], where he became an instructor and from 1885 to 1923 taught projective geometry. He also taught as a professor in Naples at the Istituto Tecnico "Gianbattista Della Porta" from 1890 to 1923, when he retired. In 1890–1891 he visited the geometers at the University of Turin.
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, volume II. At the University of Naples from 1905 to 1922, he taught a course on the history of mathematics.
Amodeo was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900 at Paris and again in 1908 in Rome. He was elected a member of the Accademia Pontaniana.
Works
Complementi di analisi algebrica elementare, 1909- , 3rd edition, 2nd reprinting, 1920Vita matematica napoletana, Napoli;, Sulla storia della prospettiva: Breve risposta alla nota del socio corrispondente Gino Loria letta nella tornata dell'8 gennaio 1933, Napoli, Tipografia dell'Ospedale Psichiatrico Provinciale Leonardo BianchiLo 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, 1933Origine e sviluppo della geometria proiettiva, Napoli, Editore B. Pellerano, 1939Sintesi storico-critica della geometria delle curve algebriche, Conte editore Napoli 1945