Among his main areas of interest are Gibbs measure of the Ising model, percolation theory,[1] and finite Bernoulli schemes, within which he proved an approximate version of the classical Kolmogorov's zero–one law.

They may have even discovered the inverse square law of gravitation (Russo's argument on this point hinges on well-established, but seldom discussed, evidence).

Thus, Russo conjectures that the definitions of elementary geometric objects were introduced in Euclid's Elements by Heron of Alexandria, 400 years after the work was completed.

[6][7][8][9] In L'America dimenticata, Russo suggests that the Americas were known to some European civilizations in ancient times, probably discovered by the Phoenicians or the Carthaginians, but that the knowledge was lost under Roman expansion in the second century BC.

With this correction, Lucio Russo manages[citation needed] to pinpoint the position of the mythical Thule, reached in the 4th century BC by explorer Pytheas, on the coast of Greenland.