Luciano Orlando


Luciano Orlando was an Italian mathematician and military engineer.

Biography

Orlando was born in Caronia, Messina. In 1903 he received his laurea from the University of Messina, where he was a student of Bagnera (mathematician)|Bagnera] and Marcolongo. After a year of graduate study at the University of Pisa, he became an assistant and libero docente at the University of Messina. After the 1908 [Messina earthquake], he moved to Rome, where he taught at the Istituto superiore di Magistero and at the Aeronautical School of Engineering of the Sapienza University of Rome.
He took part in some university competitions, but was unsuccessful.
In 1915, when he went into military action, some of his friends warned him that they thought his courage might quickly lead to his death. He died that year in Isonzo as Captain of Military Engineers, leading an action of his company of demolition specialists against the bridge of St. Daniel near Tolmin.
He was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1908 in Rome.
Orlando's most important publications deal with mathematical physics, especially the theory of elasticity and the theory of integral equations. He was one of the first to recognize the importance of Pincherle-Goursat kernels, which are an important special case of Fredholm kernels. Also noteworthy is some of Orlando's algebraic research, inspired by his teacher Bagnera.
He was the father of the journalist, writer and politician Ruggero Orlando.

Selected publications

  • Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo 17, no. 2 : 335–352.
  • Giornale di matematiche di Battaglini 40 : 233–245.
  • Giornale di matematiche di Battaglini 41 : 222–224.
  • Giornale di matematiche di Battaglini 41 : 377–378.
  • Giornale di matematiche di Battaglini 42 : 292–296.
  • Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo 18, no. 1 : 311–317.
  • Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo 19, no. 1 : 62–65.
  • Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo 19, no. 1 : 66–77.
  • Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo 21, no. 1 : 316–318.
  • Rendiconti Accademia Lincei vol. 18 : 343–348.
  • "Sulla risoluzione delle equazioni integrali." Tip. della R. Accad. dei Lincei, 1909.
  • Il Nuovo Cimento 20, no. 1 : 46–51.
  • Il Nuovo Cimento 20, no. 1 : 52–57.
  • Il Nuovo Cimento 20, no. 1 : 58–63.
  • Il Nuovo Cimento 20, no. 1 : 69–73.
  • Rendiconti Accademia Lincei vol. 19 : 257–269.
  • Rendiconti Accademia Lincei vol. 19 : 317–321.
  • Rendiconti Accademia Lincei vol. 19 : 390–393.
  • Rendiconti Accademia Lincei vol. 19 : 430–434.
  • Rendiconti Accademia Lincei vol. 20 : 742–745.
  • Mathematische Annalen 71, no. 2 : 233–245.