Beppo Levi

Beppo Levi (14 May 1875 to 28 August 1961) was an Italian-Argentine mathematician who published high-level academic articles and books on mathematics as well as on physics, history, philosophy and pedagogy. He was born in Turin to a Jewish family, the older brother of Eugenio Elia Levi, and obtained his laurea in mathematics in 1896 at the University of Turin under Corrado Segre. He became a professor at Piacenza in 1901, at Cagliari in 1906, at Parma in 1910 and at Bologna in 1928, and was a member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences and of the Accademia dei Lincei. His early work studied singularities on algebraic curves and surfaces, and later he proved foundational results concerning Lebesgue integration, including what is commonly known as Beppo Levi's lemma. He died in Rosario, Argentina.