Giovanni Carandino

Giovanni Carandino, also known as Ioannis Karandinos, was a Greek mathematician born on Cephalonia in 1784 who died in Naples in 1834. He studied mathematics during the French occupation of the island under the naval officer and Ecole Polytechnique graduate Charles Dupin, and was then sent to the Ecole Polytechnique to study under Biot, Cauchy, Poisson and Fourier. After a study trip to England he returned to Corfu and helped establish the Ionian Academy, where he created the first course of modern mathematics in the Greek language. His contributions to the formalisation of analysis were published in the Journal des Savants in 1828. He translated the major French works on analysis into Greek and taught a whole generation of Greek mathematicians, so he is seen as the founder of the modern Greek school of analysis.