Cesare Burali-Forti Explained
Cesare Burali-Forti (13 August 1861 – 21 January 1931) was an Italian mathematician, after whom the Burali-Forti paradox is named. He was a prolific writer, with 180 publications.[1]
Biography
Burali-Forti was born in Arezzo, and he obtained his degree from the University of Pisa in 1884.[2] 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 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).
- http://matematica.unibocconi.it/libri/logica-matematica Logica Matematica (Hoepli, Milano, 1894).
- http://www.peano2008.unito.it/scuola/buralifortien.pdf 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:
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Cesare Burali-Forti's publications . 2024-02-04 . Maths History . en.
- Web site: Burali-Forti, Cesare Encyclopedia.com . 2024-02-04 . www.encyclopedia.com.
