14 Facts About Giuseppe Vitali

Giuseppe Vitali was an Italian mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis.

Giuseppe Vitali gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers.

Giuseppe Vitali completed his elementary education in Ravenna in 1886, and then spent three years at the Ginnasio Comunale in Ravenna where his performance in the final examinations of 1889 was average.

Giuseppe Vitali continued his secondary education in Ravenna at the Dante Alighieri High School.

Giuseppe Vitali wrote to Giuseppe's father, in a letter dated 28 June 1895, asking that he allow his son to pursue further studies in mathematics.

Giuseppe Vitali became a student of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and graduated to the University of Pisa in 1899.

Giuseppe Vitali spent two years as assistant before leaving the academic world.

Giuseppe Vitali taught at the Universities of Padua and Bologna.

Giuseppe Vitali was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Bologna in September 1928, giving the lecture Rapporti inattesi su alcuni rami della matematica.

From 1926 Giuseppe Vitali developed a serious illness and suffered a paralysed arm, meaning he could no longer write.

Giuseppe Vitali published a remarkable volume of mathematics over his career with his most significant output taking place in the first eight years of the twentieth century.

In 1905 Giuseppe Vitali was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers, see Giuseppe Vitali set.

Giuseppe Vitali's covering theorem is a fundamental result in measure theory.

Giuseppe Vitali proved several theorems concerning convergence of sequences of measurable and holomorphic functions.