Mauro Picone

Mauro Picone
Mauro Picone
Born	(1885-05-02)2 May 1885 Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy
Died	11 April 1977(1977-04-11) (aged 91) Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	Scuola Normale Superiore (1909)
Known for	Picone identity Sturm-Picone comparison theorem
Scientific career
Fields	Calculus of variation numerical analysis ordinary differential equations partial differential equations
Institutions	University of Cagliari University of Catania University of Naples Federico II Università di Roma
Doctoral advisor	Luigi Bianchi
Doctoral students	see the teaching activity section

Mauro Picone (2 May 1885 – 11 April 1977) was an Italian mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem and being the founder of the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, presently named after him, the first applied mathematics institute ever founded.^[1] He was also an outstanding teacher of mathematical analysis: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils.