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The UME Archives – Debates in the Italian Mathematical Community, 1922–1938
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umi.dm.unibo.it/en/info-3/ umi-historical-archive /; on Italian science archives see http:// www.archividellascienza.org/en/. We would like to thank the former UMI president, Ciro Ciliberto, the current president, Piermarco Cannarsa, and the treasurer Veronica Gavagna for allowing us to consult the Archive; we are also grateful to the archivist Alida Caramagno for her useful suggestions.
The UMI Archives - Debates in the Italian Mathematicl Community, 1922-1938
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2019
umi.dm.unibo.it/en/info-3/ umi-historical-archive /; on Italian science archives see http:// www.archividellascienza.org/en/. We would like to thank the former UMI president, Ciro Ciliberto, the current president, Piermarco Cannarsa, and the treasurer Veronica Gavagna for allowing us to consult the Archive; we are also grateful to the archivist Alida Caramagno for her useful suggestions.
The UMI Archives – Debates in the Italian Mathematical Community, 1922–1938
EMS Newsletter, 2019
The Archives of the Unione Matematica Italiana (Italian Mathematical Union, UMI), located at the Dipartimento di Matematica of the Bologna University, has been recently reorganized and will be soon opened to scholars. It consists of two parts: a historical covering the period from 1921 to the mid-fifties, and a modern part reaching from 1967 until today. This paper focuses on the historical part containing two sections: a first section with documents listed in the old Inventory of the UMI Archives, concerning the years 1921-1933 and 1939-1943; a second section kept in a box labelled “Correspondence relating to the Italian Mathematical Union 1938-1950. Do not open before the year 2000”. The latter is a non-inventoried archive (sealed files, “fondo secretato”) and contains 14 files from the years 1938-1952. It was forbidden to consult this section most likely to avoid the premature disclosure of documents relating to UMI’s unseemly reaction following the Racial Laws. This part mostly consists of the correspondence of Enrico Bompiani, vice-president of the UMI from 1938 to 1948 and president from 1948 to 1952. In order to hide proofs that the UMI collaborated with the fascist regime, some documents have most probably been removed. As we try to show in this paper, the documents of the UMI Archives highlight new significant aspects of the history of the UMI, in particular the attitude of the Italian Mathematical Union towards the fascist regime and the Racial Laws (1938), by enriching or completing the existing literature on the relationships between mathematicians and fascism. They moreover provide useful information on the international context of the inter-war period, when mathematicians tried with difficulty to reconstitute scientific internationalism interrupted by the First World War.
From internationalization to autarky: Mathematics in Rome between the two world wars
2020
The history of mathematics in Rome between the two world wars is characterized by a complete reversal of the enlightened international vision promoted by Guido Castelnuovo, Vito Volterra, Tullio Levi-Civita and Federigo Enriques, in favor of a short-sighted autarkic one, mainly personified by Francesco Severi. It is a story full of contradictions, in which internal trends to the community of Italian mathematicians intertwine inextricably with powerful social and political changes. This reversal of attitude compromises the international success of Italian mathematics and its capability to keep up with the big transformations which are changing the face of mathematics: topology, abstract algebra and abstract functional analysis, just to recall some of the fields where thesealgebra and abstract functional analysis, just to recall some of the fields where these changes are more radical.
Guido Castelnuovo: Documents for a Biography
Historia Mathematica, 2001
In recent years it has been possible to begin the study of the archive of Guido Castelnuovo, one of the most important mathematicians of the Italian school of algebraic geometry. The archive contains a large scientific correspondence, only partially examined, and all the notebooks of lectures given by Castelnuovo in the courses of the last two years of the Italian degree (Laurea) in mathematics. In this paper we discuss the notebooks of the lectures. The history of the Italian school of algebraic geometry is greatly illuminated by this recent discovery. C 2001 Academic Press Da alcuni anniè in corso lo studio dell'archivio di Guido Castelnuovo, uno degli esponenti più importanti della scuola italiana di geometria algebrica. Oltre ad una ricca corrispondenza scientifica, solo in parte esaminata, sono stati ritrovati recentemente tutti i quaderni delle lezioni dei corsi che Castelnuovo tenne per il secondo biennio della Laurea in matematica. In questo articolo diamo una prima descrizione di questi quaderni. Importanti aspetti della storia della scuola italiana di geometria algebrica possono essere chiariti alla luce di questi nuovi documenti.
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The historiography of mathematics in Italy has a long tradition dating back to the Renaissance (Bernardino Baldi, 201 biographies in his Vite de' matematici). Moreover, Italian scholars contributed to the transmission and history of science with translations, commentaries and editions of ancient classics, and chronologies were included in encyclopedic treatises in the sixteenth century. In a modern sense, however, the historiography of mathematics begins in the eighteenth century, when the history of mathematics was considered an area of the history of human thinking. In Italy it was initially developed as a part of Italian literature and inserted into general works (Giovanni Andres, Girolamo Tiraboschi). Critical analysis of mathematical theories and their historical foundations can be found in works of mathematicians like Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Gregorio Fontana, and Pietro Cossali. Giambattista Guglielmini, at beginning of the nineteenth century, provided, with his eulogy of L...
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