Michele Cipolla

Italian mathematician (1880-1947) Date Of Birth : 1880-10-28T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1947-09-07T00:00:00Z

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.

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