Giovanni Vacca
Italian mathematician and sinologist
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- Masters Sinology University of Milan
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Giovanni Enrico Eugenio Vacca was an Italian mathematician, Sinologist and historian of science. Vacca studied mathematics and graduated from the University of Genoa in 1897 under the guidance of G. B. Negri. He was a politically active student and was banished for that from Genoa in 1897. He moved to Turin and became an assistant to Giuseppe Peano. In 1899 he studied, at Hanover, unpublished manuscripts of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, which he published in 1903. Around 1898 Vacca became interested in Chinese language and culture after attending a Chinese exhibition in Turin. He took private lessons of Chinese and continued to study it at the University of Florence. Vacca then traveled to China in 1907–8. Originally he had planned to study the history of Chinese mathematics and ancient and modern science in more detail, but he returned to Europe without truly linking his mathematical interests with the study of Chinese civilization. He pursued the latter professionally, first, as a lecturer of Chinese language and literature at the Istituto di studi superiori di Firenze in 1910, then, in charge of teaching language and literature of the Far East at the University of Rome from 1911 until 1921, transferred to Florence in succession of Carlo Puini as ordinario for History and Geography of East Asia, and finally at the University of Rome, where he held the chair for History and Geography of East Asia from 1923 to his retirement in 1948 when he was in his 76th year. Besides actively contributing to the field of East Asian Studies, Vacca continued in parallel to work on mathematical questions inspired by his intellectual proximity to Peano’s School and his extensive readings of historical sources by Euclid, Archimedes, Euler, Fermat, Napier, and others.
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