Pia Nalli

Pia Maria Nalli (10 February 1886 – 27 September 1964) was an Italian mathematician known for her work on the summability of Fourier series, on Morera's theorem for analytic functions of several variables and for finding the solution to the Fredholm integral equation of the third kind for the first time. Her research interests ranged from algebraic geometry to functional analysis and tensor analysis; she was a speaker at the 1928 International Congress of Mathematicians.

She is also remembered for her struggles against discrimination against women in the Italian university hiring system. A street in Rome is named after her.

Life and academic career

Early life and education Nalli was born on February 10, 1886, in Palermo, to a middle-class family with seven children. She studied at the University of Palermo, where she obtained a laurea in 1910 under the supervision of Giuseppe Bagnera, with a thesis concerning algebraic geometry, and in the same year joined the Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

Death and legacy Nalli died on 27 September 1964, in Catania. A street in Rome, the Via Pia Nalli, is named after her. Her "Selected works" include this monograph plus eleven articles on topics mainly belonging to functional and mathematical analysis: the following list includes also her doctoral thesis and other works on tensor calculus . . . . . .