to the Annali di scienze matematiche e fisiche, and to the Annali di matematica, of which he became afterwards joint editor. Papers by him appeared in the mathematical journals of Italy, France, Germany and England, and he published several important works, many of which have been translated into other languages. His manual Graphical Statics and his Elements of Projective Geometry (translated by Thomas Hudson Beare and C. Leudesdorf respectively) were published in English by the Clarendon Press. In 1873 he was called to Rome to organize the Royal College of Engineering, and was also appointed professor of higher mathematics at the university. Cremona's reputation had now become European, and in 1879 he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Society. In the same year he became a member of the senate of the Kingdom of Italy. In 1898 he was briefly minister for education. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences elected Cremona as member in 1901. The following year, he was awarded the German Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts. He died in Rome in 1903. Works Elementi di calcolo grafico: ad uso degli Istituti Tecnici (Stamperia reale di G. B. Paravia e C., Torino, 1874) Elementi di geometria projettiva (G. B. Paravia e Comp., Torino, 1873) Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane (Tipi Gamberini e Parmeggiani, Bologna, 1862) Le figure reciproche nella statica grafica (Tipografia di G. Bernardoni, Milano, 1872) Opere matematiche di Luigi Cremona; pubblicati sotto gli auspici della R. Accademia dei Lincei (U. Hoepli, Milano, 1914) Preliminari di una teoria geometrica delle superficie (Tipi Gamberini e Parmeggiani, Bologna, 1866) Elements of projective geometry (Clarendon press, Oxford, 1885) (translation by Charles Leudesdorf) Graphical statics. Two treatises on the graphical calculus and reciprocal figures in graphical statics (Clarendon press, Oxford, 1890) (Translated by Thomas Hudson Beare.) See also Cremona diagram Cremona group Cremona–Richmond configuration Truss References Sources G. B. Mathews (1917) Opere Matematiche di Luigi Cremona Nature 100:23 (#2498). Tricomi: La Matematica Italiana 1800–1950 (entry on Cremona) External links 1830 births 1903 deaths Scientists from Pavia Algebraic geometers 19th-century Italian mathematicians 20th-century Italian mathematicians Foreign Members of the Royal Society Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) University of Pavia alumni