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By Umberto Bottazzini (auth.), Claudio Bartocci, Renato Betti, Angelo Guerraggio, Roberto Lucchetti (eds.)

Steps ahead in arithmetic usually reverberate in different clinical disciplines, and provides upward push to cutting edge conceptual advancements or locate extraordinary technological purposes. This quantity brings to the leading edge a few of the proponents of the math of the 20th century, who've positioned at our disposal new and strong tools for investigating the truth round us. The pix current those who have extraordinary air of secrecy and wide-ranging cultural pursuits, who're keen about protecting the significance in their personal study, are delicate to good looks, and responsive to the social and political difficulties in their occasions. What we have now sought to record is arithmetic’ relevant place within the tradition of our day. house has been made not just for the good mathematicians but in addition for literary texts, together with contributions by means of obvious interlopers, Robert Musil and Raymond Queneau, for whom mathematical innovations represented a worthy software for resolving the fight among ‘soul and precision.’

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He was assistant first to Enriques and then to Bertini in Pisa. In 1922 he transferred to the University of Rome, rising to the position of rector. He wrote more than 400 articles and books, mainly on algebraic geometry, a field in which he introduced new concepts and techniques: among all of those he is The Way We Were 23 credited with, it is sufficient to mention the notion of algebraic equivalence and the theory of series of linear equivalences. He was considered to be a brilliant speaker and an extraordinary teacher.

He studied with Aureliano Faifofer, who directed him towards mathematical studies. He graduated in Padua in 1886 with Veronese and, after having spent a year in Rome with Cremona, he transferred to Turin where – under the influence of Corrado Segre – he published several fundamental works on the theory of algebraic curves. In 1891 he transferred to Rome, where in 1903 he took over the teaching of advanced geometry. After having contributed, along with Enriques (whose sister he married, a fact that led Severi to nickname them “the two brothers-in-law”), to the founding of the theory of algebraic surfaces and the completion of their classification, his scientific interests turned to the calculus of probability, concerning which he published a paper in 1918 that was very important for the development of that field in Italy.

From: P. Vale´ry, “Passage de Verlaine”, from E´tudes litte´raires. Bertrand Russell Paradoxes and Other Enigmas Gianni Rigamonti Bertrand Russell lived for almost a hundred years (1872–1970), and was a prolific writer for more than seventy of them, ranging from the foundations of mathematics to logic, from consciousness theory to the history of philosophy, from moral philosophy to political debates. But he is perhaps better known for his pacifism and his militant laicism than for his theoretical work.

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