Mathematician:Cesare Burali-Forti

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

• Burali-Forti Paradox

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)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Cesare Burali-Forti": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive