Giuseppe Lauricella (15 December 1867 – 9 January 1913) was an Italian mathematician who contributed to analysis and theory of elasticity.Lauricella, Giuseppe — Treccani, Dizionario-Biografico
Biography Born in Agrigento (Sicily), Lauricella studied at the University of Pisa, where his professors included Luigi Bianchi, Ulisse Dini and Vito Volterra. He taught in secondary schools from 1895 to 1898, then became a professor at the University of Catania. In 1907 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1908 in Rome. hathitrust link
Lauricella died in Catania at age 45 from a scarlet fever he contracted from one of his children.
Contributions Lauricella hypergeometric series Lauricella's theorem (regarding orthogonal functions)
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References
Tricomi: La matematica italiana 1800-1950, 1962 (entry on Lauricella)