Alessandro Figà Talamanca (25 May 1938 – 27 November 2023) was an Italian mathematician who had been given several prestigious tasks, both in Italy and abroad.

Several times, he took part in managing the Italian University system and shared his opinions in newspapers, such as La Repubblica.

[citation needed] Figà Talamanca did research, and got valuable results, in the field of harmonic analysis, on aleatory Fourier series and the diffusion process, mostly in Rome - at La Sapienza -, but also in the US, especially in the Sixties.

[citation needed] During that period on a Fulbright scholarship, he joined research activities in California, UCLA, where he got his Ph.D, in 1964, and, in the same year, was Acting Assistant Professor, and met the well-known French-American mathematician Serge Lang, and also in Boston, Moore Instructor at MIT from 1966 to 1968.

Talamanca was a lecturer at Berkeley, from 1968 to 1969, then at Yale, from 1969 to 1970, then a visiting professor at Maryland, in Washington, Wales and Sydney.