Gino Loria

Born in Mantua on May 19, 1862, Gino Loria became one of Italy’s best-known historians of mathematics. He studied at the University of Turin and went on to teach at the University of Genoa, where he spent much of his academic career.

Loria wrote extensively on the history of mathematics, especially geometry, and became widely respected for the way he connected technical ideas with the people and cultures behind them. He was especially known for work on the history of special plane curves and for broader studies that helped establish mathematical history as an important scholarly discipline.

He died in Genoa on January 30, 1954. Today he is remembered not only as a mathematician, but as a gifted interpreter of mathematics’ long and fascinating past.