Vincenzo Flauti

Vincenzo Flauti was an Italian mathematician and professor at the University of Naples, born on 4 April 1782 and dead on 20 June 1863. He studied at the Liceo del Salvatore, the school led by Nicola Fergola, and although he began medical studies he changed to mathematics under the influence of his master Fergola. He taught at the University of Naples from 1803 to 1860, succeeding Fergola in his chair in 1812, and became the leader of the synthetic school of mathematics that Fergola had founded. In 1807, jointly with Felice Giannattasio, he was entrusted by the Bourbon government with writing a mathematics textbook for all schoolchildren in the kingdom, and in 1860 he was excluded from the Academy of Sciences of Naples and from teaching as a supporter of the Bourbon monarchy.