At the University of Palermo , Bagnera received his '' laurea '' in civil engineering in 1890 and then his '' laurea '' in mathematics in 1895 . His teachers included Giovanni Battista Guccia , Francesco Gerbaldi ed Ernesto Cesàro . In 1899 he was appointed '' libero docente '' ( lecturer ) in algebraic analysis at the University of Palermo . He was appointed professor extraordinarius of infinitesimal calculus in 1901 , then professor ordinarius in 1905 , at the University of Messina , where he remained until the 1908 earthquake . He then taught at the University of Palermo until 1922 when he moved to the Sapienza University of Rome , where he taught until his death
1908 earthquake
1908 Messina earthquake
Giuseppe Bagnera (mathematician)