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The geography of the Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo: local and international aspect

The Mathematical Circle of Palermo, founded in 1884 by 27 mathematicians all living in Palermo, became the publisher of the prestigious magazine "Rendiconti", which in thirty years became one of the leading international mathematical journals. In this talk, we will analyze the evolution of the components of the Societies and of Rendiconti towards internationalization from 1884 to 1914. Moreover, we will try to extract from the statistical data some considerations about the possible causes of the identified internationalization process

Il ruolo di Luigi Cremona nella prima formazione scientifica di Eugenio Beltrami attraverso la loro corrispondenza

In October 1862 Beltrami was appointed, before graduating, as a professor at the University of Bologna, and here he met again his friend and colleague Cremona. The correspondence between the two mathematicians clearly shows not only the intimate friendship between them, but also Cremona’s role as Beltrami’s mentor in those years. The former is indeed generous with advice, encouragement and recommendations to his friend.

The issue of mathematics textbooks in the correspondence of Giovanni Novi to Enrico Betti during the Unification of Italy

2013

The Unification of Italy represented a political, educational and mathematical turning point; leading researchers worked to raise both the mathematical and political standard in Italy through their active role in the reform of the Italian educational system at the secondary as well as at the university levels. One of the aims was to adapt the elementary books of mathematics to the progress of mathematics, through the translation of new works too. In the Archivio Betti, at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, there are 48 letters that the mathematician Giovanni Novi (1826-1866) sent his friend Enrico Betti (1823-1892) from December of 1850 to October of 1864. Novi translated important treat…

The Annali di Matematica and the Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo: two different steps in the dissemination and progress of mathematics i…

2014

History of Mathematics: A Global Cultural Approach

2021

Remarks on the Historiography of Mathematics

2021

In this paper, I examine aspects of the methodological debate that originated in 2010, when the distinguished historian of mathematics Sabetai Unguru reviewed Roshdi Rashed’s edition of the Arabic translation of Apollonius’ Conics. In his review, Unguru criticized what Rashed calls “l’usage instrumental d’une autre mathématique pour commenter une oeuvre ancienne”. I consider this debate very important and will try to place it within in the discussion of the so-called “geometric algebra” that goes back to the seventies, by tracing the contributions of the main figures who took part in it. Published Online (2021-04-30)Copyright © 2021 by Aldo Brigaglia Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.ut…

Hans Wußing (1927–2011) and the blooming of the history of mathematics and sciences in the German Democratic Republic – A biographical essay

2012

Authors version of an article published in the journal: Historia Mathematica. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2012.01.004

The Correspondences of Luigi Cremona and Placido Tardy in the Libraries of Genoa

2018

We describe the historical framework and the main issues (biographical, scientific, political, etc.) of the correspondences of Placido Tardy and Luigi Cremona in the libraries of Genoa, which constitute an important contribution to the reconstruction of the History of Mathematics in the Italian “Risorgimento”. In particular, we mainly deal with the Cremona-Tardy, Betti-Tardy and Cremona-Guccia correspondences. Tardy’s letters are preserved at the Genoa University Library and Cremona’s letters at the Mazzini Institute of Genoa.

Historical Events in the Background of Hilbert’s Seventh Paris Problem

2015

David Hilbert’s lecture, “Mathematical Problems,” [Hilbert 1900] delivered in Paris in 1900 at the Second International Congress of Mathematicians, has long been recognized as marking a milestone in the history of mathematics. Certainly for Hilbert himself, this marked the single greatest event and a true turning point in his storied career. When historians and mathematicians have written about the so-called Hilbert problems, they have usually looked forward into the twentieth century, sometimes by viewing their resolution as markers for mathematical progress.

The sine anecdote in Kovalevskaya’s memoirs; British Journal for the History of Mathematics

2022

In Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya’s memoirs there is a rather ambiguous story about how she came to understand trigonometric functions on her own as a teenager by reading the chapter on optics in Tyrtov’s elementary physics textbook. Furthermore, she claims that in so doing, she happened to follow ‘the same road that had been taken historically: that is, instead of a sine I used a chord’. We examine Tyrtov’s textbook in search of sources for such inspiration and quote hitherto unknown critical reactions to her autobiographical reflections by Kovalevskaya’s teacher I I Malevich. We conclude that Kovalevskaya’s memoirs may well be marred by personal interests and/or faltering memory. By adding…