Italian Mathematics Between the Two World Wars

• Main Authors: Guerraggio, Angelo (Author), Nastasi, Pietro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2006.
• Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies ; 29
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Mathematics, general.

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 sel...

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.