Early life and education[edit]
Gramegna was born on 11 May 1887 in Tortona, the youngest of five children of a pasta factory owner.[2] After studying mathematics in high school in Voghera with Giuseppe Vitali, she was admitted to the University of Turin in 1906,[3] where she became a student of Peano. She completed her mathematics degree in 1910, with the thesis Serie di equazioni differenziali lineari ed equazioni integro-differenziali [Series of linear differential equations and integro-differential equations], supervised by Peano. Peano also presented this work to the Academy of Sciences of Turin.[2]
Later life[edit]
Immediately after finishing her mathematics degree, she also earned a diploma from the mathematics section of the university's school of education, with a second thesis, Area della zona sferica e della sfera [Area of the spherical zone and of the sphere]. With this credential, she became a high school teacher in Avezzano.[2] She began there in 1910 as a substitute mathematics teacher at the normal school, won a competition for a permanent position as extraordinary mathematics teacher in 1912, and directed the associated boarding school for 1912–1913. During this period she also published on the history of mathematics.[3]
She was killed by the 1915 Avezzano earthquake, on 13 January 1915.[2][3]
Recognition[edit]
Minor planet 37840 Gramegna, discovered in 1998 by the San Vittore Observatory, was named in honor of Gramegna.[4]