Italian mathematician and engineer
Luciano Orlando (13 May 1887, Caronia, Messina – 21 August 1915, Isonzo) was an Italian mathematician and military engineer.
Biography.
Orlando received in 1903 his "laurea" from the University of Messina, where he was a student of Bagnera and Marcolongo. After a year of graduate study at the University of Pisa, he became an assistant and "libero docente" at the University of Messina. After the 1908 Messina earthquake, he moved to Rome, where he taught at the "Istituto superiore di Magistero" and at the Aeronautical School of Engineering of the Sapienza University of Rome.
He took part in some university competitions but was unsuccessful and when, in 1915, he went into military action, some of his friends warned him that they thought his courage might quickly lead to his death. He died as Captain of Military Engineers, leading an action of his company of demolition specialists against the bridge of St. Daniel near Tolmin. (Half of the entire Italian WW I casualties occurred in the Battles of the Isonzo.)
He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1908 in Rome.
Orlando's most important publications deal with mathematical physics, especially the theory of elasticity and the theory of integral equations. He was one of the first to recognize the importance of Pincherle-Goursat kernels, which are an important special case of Fredholm kernels. Also noteworthy is some of Orlando's algebraic research, inspired by his teacher Bagnera.
He was the father of the journalist, writer and politician Ruggero Orlando.
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