Pietro di Martino

Nuove instituzioni di aritmetica pratica, Section One, 1762 ed.

Pietro De Martino or Di Martino (31 May 1707 – 28 January 1746) was a mathematician and astronomer from the Kingdom of Naples.

Biography Born in Faicchio, he was the brother of Angelo, professor first of medical physics then of mathematics at the University of Naples; and of Nicola Antonio De Martino, professor of mathematics and director of the Real Corpo degli Ingegneri (Royal Engineers Corp) and Marine Guard. Pietro De Martino was a pupil of Agostino Ariani and of Giacinto De Cristoforo (1650-1730). In 1735, he was assigned to the astronomical and nautical chair at the University of Naples.

He disputed with Roger Joseph Boscovich on the question if it is possible to gain a right result starting from a wrong hypothesis.

He authored various works; his Nuove istituzioni di aritmetica pratica, published originally in 1739 in Naples, had many reprints (the better known of the 1758; one also in Turin in 1762). He died in Naples in 1746.

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