Ernesto Pascal

Ernesto Pascal (1865–1940) was an Italian mathematician.

Ernesto Pascal
Born	(1865-02-07)7 February 1865 Naples, Italy
Died	25 January 1940(1940-01-25) (aged 74) Naples, Italy
Alma mater	University of Naples
Children	Mario Pascal Alberto Pascal
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Doctoral students	Renato Caccioppoli Ljubomir Chakaloff

Life and work

Pascal graduated in mathematics from the University of Naples in 1887. In the following two years he attended courses in the universities of Pisa and Göttingen; in the last one Pascal studied under Felix Klein who influenced him.^[1] From 1890 to 1907 he was teaching at the university of Pavia and in 1907 he returned to the university of Naples where he taught until his death. Here, as Dean of the Faculty of Sciences he reorganised the teaching of mathematics, creating for each professorship a laboratory equipped with models and instruments.^[2]

Pascal was remembered for his work on elliptic functions based on Jacobi theta function.^[3]