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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Italian Mathematics Between the Two World Wars
  name:
    name part: Guerraggio, Angelo.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Nastasi, Pietro.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 299 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book describes Italian mathematics in the period between the two World Wars. We analyze its development by focusing on both the interior and the external influences. Italian mathematics in that period was shaped by a colorful array of strong personalities who concentrated their efforts on a select number of fields and won international recognition and respect in an incredibly short time. Consequently, Italy was considered a third "mathematical power" after France and Germany, and qualified Italian universities became indispensable stops on the "tour", organized for the improvement of young foreign mathematicians. In the 1930s Italian mathematics had to face the increasing growth of other countries' mathematics, which forced consideration of new mathematical topics. This comparison between the interior and exterior perspective makes this history particularly compelling. At that time, Italy was also dominated by a fascist regime. This political situation and the social and academic structure of Italian society are included in the analysis as influences external to mathematics itself. The authors have provided a fascinating study of a most difficult time in the history of the world and of mathematics.
  table of contents: The Italian school of algebraic geometry -- Mathematical physics -- Analysis -- Mathematicians at the front -- Volterra's leadership -- Rome 1921 -- The foundation of the U.M.I. and the C.N.R -- Fascism -- Giovanni Gentile and the school reform -- Severi, mathematician and politician -- Enriques and his school -- Castelnuovo, probability and 'social mathematics' -- Tullio Levi-Civita -- The Thirties -- Towards disaster -- The International Congress of 1936 -- The anti-semitic laws of 1938 -- Crisis.
  note: by Angelo Guerraggio, Pietro Nastasi.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: History of Mathematical Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics, general
  classification: QA21-27
  classification: 510.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Science Networks. Historical Studies ; 29
  identifier: 9783764375126
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7512-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204142002.0
    record identifier: 978-3-7643-7512-6