Giuseppe Lauricella was an Italian

Italy

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 mathematician

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 who is remembered today for his contributions to analysis and the theory of elasticity.

Born in Agrigento

Agrigento

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 (Sicily), he studied at the University of Pisa

University of Pisa

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, where his professors included Luigi Bianchi

Luigi Bianchi

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, Ulisse Dini and Vito Volterra

Vito Volterra

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. He taught in secondary schools from 1895 to 1898, then became a professor at the University of Catania

University of Catania

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. He died in Catania

Catania

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 at age 45 from scarlet fever

Scarlet fever

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 which he contracted from one of his children.

Contributions

• Lauricella hypergeometric series 
• Lauricella's theorem
  Lauricella's theorem
  In the theory of orthogonal functions, Lauricella's theorem provides a condition for checking the closure of a set of orthogonal functions, namely:...
  
   (regarding orthogonal functions)
• Sherman–Lauricella integral equation of elasticity