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Giuseppe Vitali

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Giuseppe Vitali (August 26 1875 - February 29 1932) was an Italian mathematician, remembered for the Vitali theorem on the existence of non-measurable sets of real numbers. His Vitali covering lemma is also fundamental to measure theory.

He was born in Ravenna and died in Bologna.

See Also

Vitali set

  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Giuseppe Vitali", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews