Giovanni Frattini (8 January 1852 – 21 July 1925) was an Italian mathematician, noted for his contributions to group theory.
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| Born | 8 January 1852 |
| Died | 21 July 1925 (aged 73) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Known for | Frattini subgroup Frattini's argument |
| Awards | ICM Speaker (1908) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Giuseppe Battaglini Eugenio Beltrami |
Biography edit
Frattini entered the University of Rome in 1869, where he studied mathematics with Giuseppe Battaglini, Eugenio Beltrami, and Luigi Cremona, obtaining his Laurea in 1875.
In 1885 he published a paper where he defined a certain subgroup of a finite group. This subgroup, now known as the Frattini subgroup, is the subgroup generated by all the non-generators of the group . He showed that is nilpotent and, in so doing, developed a method of proof known today as Frattini's argument.[1]
Besides group theory, he also studied differential geometry and the analysis of second degree indeterminates. [2]
Notes edit
- ^ Frattini, Giovanni (1885). "Intorno alla generazione dei gruppi di operazioni (english translation)" (PDF). Accademia dei Lincei, Rendiconti. (4). I: 281–285, 455–457. JFM 17.0097.01. (original paper available at Emeroteca Braidense)
- ^ Emaldi, Maurizio, Giovanni Frattini 1852–1925, Irish Math. Soc. Bull. No. 23 (1989), 57–61.
References edit
- Hall, Marshall (1959). The theory of groups. New York, N.Y.: Macmillan.
- Emaldi, M.; Zacher, G., Giovanni Frattini (1852–1925), matematico (in italian), Advances in group theory 2002, 191–207, Aracne, Rome, 2003.