Michele Cipolla
Introduction 150px'''Michele Cipolla''' (28 October 1880, Palermo – 7 September 1947, Palermo) was an Italian mathematician, mainly specializing in number theory.He was a professor of Algebraic Analysis at the University of Catania and, later, the University of Palermo. He developed (among other things) a theory for sequences of sets and Cipolla's algorithm for finding square roots modulo a prime number. He also solved the problem of binomial congruence.
Publications *''Opere'' (Hrsg. : Guido Zappa)  Sede della Soc., Palermo 1997.XXXII, 547 S. : Ill. (Supplemento ai Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo ; Ser. 2, No. 47)*''Storia della matematica dai primordi a Leibniz''. Soc. Ed. Siciliana, Mazara 1949.174 S.
Literature *Michele Cipolla (1880–1947): la figura e l'opera ; convegno celebrativo nel cinquantenario della morte (Palermo, 8 settembre 1997) / / Associazione degli Insegnanti e dei Cultori di Matematica. - Palermo 1998.156 S.
See also * Cipolla's algorithm: Method for taking the modular square root for a prime modulus
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