Lucio Russo

Lucio Russo (22 November 1944 – 12 July 2025) was an Italian physicist, mathematician and historian of science. Born in Venice, he taught at the Mathematics Department of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He died in Bologna on 12 July 2025, at the age of 80.

Among his main areas of interest were Gibbs measure of the Ising model, percolation theory, and finite Bernoulli schemes, within which he proved an approximate version of the classical Kolmogorov's zero–one law.

In the history of science, he reconstructed some contributions of the Hellenistic astronomer Hipparchus, through the analysis of his surviving works, and the proof of heliocentrism attributed by Plutarch to Seleucus of Seleucia and studied the history of theories of tides, from the Hellenistic to modern age. Provided by Wikipedia