Maria Pastori
(1895 – 1975). After teaching at elementary school, she entered Scuola normale superiore di Pisa and
graduated as number one. She continued teaching in middle school and in 1929 became regular assistant
in mathematics at the University of Milano. With the exception of years at the University
of Messina from 1934 to 1939, she spent her whole carrier at the university of Milano. Her
contributions were mostly in tensor analysis and differential geometry but she also was interested in
quantum mechanics and thermodynamics.