Mathematician:Cesare Burali-Forti
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Mathematician
Italian mathematician best known for discovering what is now known as the Burali-Forti Paradox.
Disbelieved in the Theory of Relativity, and even went so far as to write a book attempting to refute it.
Nationality
Italian
History
- Born: 13 Aug 1861, Arezzo, Italy
- Died: 21 Jan 1931, Turin, Italy
Theorems and Definitions
Results named for Cesare Burali-Forti can be found here.
Publications
- 1897: The postulates for the geometry of Euclid and of Lobachevsky
- 1897: Introduction à la géométrie différentielle, suivant la méthode de H. Grassmann
- 1904: Lezioni Di Geometria Metrico-Proiettiva
- 1910: Elements de Calcul Vectoriel (with Roberto Marcolongo)
- 1912: Corso di geometria analitico-proiettiva per gli allievi della R. Accademia Militare
- 1913: Analyse Vectorielle Générale: Applications à la mécanique et à la physique (with Roberto Marcolongo)
- 1921: Geometria descrittiva
- 1921: Meccanica razionale (with Tommaso Boggio)
- 1924: Espaces courbes. Critique de la Relativité (with Tommaso Boggio)
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Cesare Burali-Forti": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Burali-Forti paradox
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Burali-Forti's paradox
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Burali-Forti's paradox