Cesare Burali-Forti

Cesare Burali-Forti
Born	13 August 1861 Arezzo
Died	21 January 1931 Turin
Known for	Burali-Forti paradox
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics

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]

This section needs expansion with: There needs to be more information besides "he was known for the Burali-Forti paradox".. You can help by adding to it. (February 2024)

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.

• 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.

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.

This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (September 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

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

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