Volterra, Vito (Author)
Mazliak, Laurent (Author)
Tazzioli, Rossana (Author)
Numerous scientists have taken part in the war effort during World War I, but few gave it the passionate energy of the prominent Italian mathematician Volterra. As a convinced supporter of the cause of Britain and France, he struggled vigorously to carry Italy into the war in May 1915 and then developed a frenetic activity to support the war effort, going himself to the front, even though he was 55. This activity found an adequate echo with his French colleagues Borel, Hadamard and Picard. The huge correspondence they exchanged during the war, gives an extraordinary view of these activities, and raises numerous fundamental questions about the role of a scientist, and particularly a mathematician during WW I. It also offers a vivid documentation about the intellectual life of the time ; Volterra's and Borel's circles in particular were extremely wide and the range of their interests was not limited to their field of specialization. The book proposes the complete transcription of the aforementioned correspondence, annotated with numerous footnotes to give details on the contents. It also offers a general historical introduction to the context of the letters and several complements on themes related to the academic exchanges between France and Italy during the war.
...MoreReview Schubring, Gert (2012) Review of "Mathematicians at War: Volterra and His French Colleagues in World War I". Historia Mathematica (pp. 347-350).
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Durand, Antonin;
Mazliak, Laurent;
(2011)
Revisiting the Sources of Borel's Interest in Probability: Continued Fractions, Social Involvement, Volterra's Prolusione
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Mazliak, Laurent;
Shafer, Glenn;
(2011)
What Does the Arrest and Release of Emile Borel and His Colleagues in 1941 Tell Us about the German Occupation of France?
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Israel, Giorgio;
(2002)
The Biology of Numbers: The Correspondence of Vito Volterra on Mathematical Biology
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(2010)
Borel, Fréchet, Darmois: La découverte des statistiques par les probabilistes français
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Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard;
(2009)
The Institute Henri Poincaré and Mathematics in France between the Wars
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Loredana Biacino;
(2018)
The Concept of Function at the Beginning of the 20th Century: A Historiographical Approach
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Goodstein, Judith R.;
(2007)
The Volterra Chronicles: The Life and Times of an Extraordinary Mathematician, 1860--1940
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Bonnemain, Bruno;
(2007)
Une utilisation des cartes interzones de la guerre 39--45 en faveur de la pharmacie: le cas des laboratoires Guerbet
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Epple, Moritz;
Karachalios, Andreas;
Remmert, Volker R.;
(2005)
Aerodynamics and Mathematics in National Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy: A Comparison of Research Institutes
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Pedro J. Freitas;
(2019)
The Correspondence from Ernesto Cesàro to Francisco Gomes Teixeira
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Mazliak, Laurent;
Šišma, Pavel;
(2005)
Le début des relations mathématiques franco-tchécoslovaques vu à travers la correspondance Hostinsky-Fréchet
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Enriques, Federigo;
Simili, Raffaella;
(2000)
Per la scienza: Scritti editi e inediti
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Palladino, Franco;
Palladino, Nicla;
(2006)
Dalla “moderna geometria” alla “nuova geometria italiana”. Viaggiando per Napoli, Torino e dintorni
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Babbitt, Donald;
Goodstein, Judith R.;
(2009)
Guido Castelnuovo and Francesco Severi: Two Personalities, Two Letters
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Peano, Giuseppe;
Couturat, Louis;
Luciano, Erika;
Roero, Clara Silvia;
(2005)
Carteggio: 1896--1914
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Barberousse, Anouk;
(2008)
La valeur de la connaissance approchée. L'épistémologie de l'approximation d'Émile Borel
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Wang, Quanlai;
(2009)
The Research on Emile Borel's Work Relative to Theory of Zero Measure Set
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Borovik, Alexandre;
Katz, Mikhail G.;
(2012)
Who Gave You the Cauchy-Weierstrass Tale? The Dual History of Rigorous Calculus
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Bru, Bernard;
Bru, Marie France;
Chung, Kai Lai;
(2009)
Borel and the St. Petersburg Martingale
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Sandra Linguerri;
(2016)
La ricerca dalla guerra alla pace
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