Biography:Cesare Burali-Forti
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Short description: Italian mathematician
Cesare Burali-Forti | |
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Born | 13 August 1861 Arezzo |
Died | 21 January 1931 |
Known for | Burali-Forti paradox |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Cesare Burali-Forti (13 August 1861 – 21 January 1931) was an Italian mathematician, after whom the Burali-Forti paradox is named.
Biography
Burali-Forti was born in Arezzo, and was an assistant of Giuseppe Peano in Turin from 1894 to 1896, during which time he discovered a theorem which Bertrand Russell later realised contradicted a previously proved result by Georg Cantor. The contradiction came to be called the Burali-Forti paradox of Cantorian set theory. He died in Turin.
Books by C. Burali-Forti
- Analyse vectorielle générale: Applications à la mécanique et à la physique. with Roberto Marcolongo (Mattéi & co., Pavia, 1913).
- Corso di geometria analitico-proiettiva per gli allievi della R. Accademia Militare (G. B. Petrini di G. Gallizio, Torino, 1912).
- Geometria descrittiva (S. Lattes & c., Torino, 1921).
- Introduction à la géométrie différentielle, suivant la méthode de H. Grassmann (Gauthier-Villars, 1897).
- Lezioni Di Geometria Metrico-Proiettiva (Fratelli Bocca, Torino, 1904).
- Meccanica razionale with Tommaso Boggio (S. Lattes & c., Torino, 1921).
- [1] Logica Matematica (Hoepli, Milano, 1894).
- [2] Complete listing of publications and bibliography, 8 pages.
Bibliography
Primary literature in English translation:
- Jean van Heijenoort, 1967. A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931. Harvard Univ. Press.
- 1897. "A question on transfinite numbers," 104-11.
- 1897. "On well-ordered classes," 111-12.
Secondary literature:
- Ivor Grattan-Guinness, 2000. The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870-1940. Princeton Uni. Press.
References
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Cesare Burali-Forti", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Burali-Forti.html.
External links
- Error in Template:Internet Archive author: Cesare Burali-Forti doesn't exist.
- "Introduction to Differential Geometry, following the method of H. Grassmann" (English translation)
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