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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. He was a prolific writer, with 180 publications.




Biography



Burali-Forti was born in Arezzo, and he obtained his degree from the University of Pisa in 1884. 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).
[1] Logica Matematica (Hoepli, Milano, 1894).
[2] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine 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:

Ivor Grattan-Guinness, 2000. The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870-1940. Princeton Uni. Press.




References



O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Cesare Burali-Forti", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews




External links


Works by or about Cesare Burali-Forti at the Internet Archive
"Introduction to Differential Geometry, following the method of H. Grassmann" (English translation)

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