Maria Paola Gramegna (1887–1915) was an Italian mathematician and a student of Giuseppe Peano.
Her work with Peano on systems of linear differential equations has been cited as an important early milestone in the history of functional analysis and its transition from working with concrete matrices to more abstract basis-independent formulations of linear algebra.
[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.
[2] 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].