Cesare Burali-Forti
Italian mathematician (1861–1931)
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Cesare Burali-Forti (13 August 1861 – 21 January 1931) was an Italian mathematician, after whom the Burali-Forti paradox is named.[1] He was a prolific writer, with 200 publications.[2]
Cesare Burali-Forti | |
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| Born | 13 August 1861 |
| Died | 21 January 1931 (aged 69) Turin, Kingdom of Italy |
| Alma mater | University of Pisa |
| Known for | Burali-Forti paradox |
| Spouse |
Gemma Viviani (m. 1887) |
| Children | 1 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
Early life
Burali-Forti was born in Arezzo, and he obtained his degree from the University of Pisa in 1884.[3]
Career
In 1886, after two years of middle-school service in Sicily, Burali-Forti won a competition to become professor of analytic and projective geometry at the military academy in Turin.[4] He 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 known as the Burali-Forti paradox of Cantorian set theory.
Personal life and death
He married Gemma Viviani on 29 October 1887 and they had a son named Umberto.[1]
He died in Turin on 21 January 1931.
Books by C. Burali-Forti
- Analyse vectorielle générale: Applications à la mécanique et à la physique. with Roberto Marcolongo (Mattéi & co., Pavia, 1913).
- Applications à la mécanique et à la physique. With Tommasio Boggio and Roberto Marcolongo (Mattei & co., 1913) [5]
- Corso di geometria analitico-proiettiva per gli allievi della R. Accademia Militare (G. B. Petrini di G. Gallizio, Torino, 1912).
- Elementi di calcolo vettoriale con numerose applicazioni alla geometria, alla meccanica e alla fisica-matematica. With Roberto Marcolongo (N. Zanichelli, 1920) [5]
- 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).
- Logica Matematica (Hoepli, Milano, 1894).
- Complete listing of publications and bibliography, 8 pages. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
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.