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The article presents information on the work of sociologist Vilfredo Pareto. In 1866, at the age of 18, Vilfredo Pareto published his first article on the applications of axionometric design. A year later, he received his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Turin and matriculated in mechanical engineering. In 1870, he graduated as an engineer maxima cum laude upon defending a doctoral thesis on "Fundamental Principles on the Theory of Elasticity of Solid Bodies and Basic Research on the Integration of the Equations That Differentiate the Equilibrium." The next 10 years in Pareto's life were full of varied occupational, intellectual and political experiences. For four years he worked as a consulting engineer in the railways of the new Kingdom. Later he was for six years general superintendent of three iron mines. During this period he became interested in economics, noting that there was much to read about it but altogether too little science in it. In 1880 he became general director of the Italian Society of Iron Works.