Lines on the Horizon

Frédéric Jaeck (1, 2) , Angelo Guerraggio (3) , Laurent Mazliak (4)

1 DMA - Département de Mathématiques et Applications - ENS Paris
2 SPHERE (UMR_7219) - Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire
3 Uninsubria - Universitá degli Studi dell’Insubria = University of Insubria [Varese]
4 LPMA - Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires

This present chapter concerns a very specific aspect of the relationship between French and Italian mathematicians at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and is centred on the work of Vito Volterra (1860–1940).

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]; Analyse fonctionnelle [math.FA]

Frédéric Jaeck, Angelo Guerraggio, Laurent Mazliak. Lines on the Horizon: Hadamard and Fréchet, Readers of Volterra. Images of Italian Mathematics in France, Springer International Publishing, pp.127-179, 2016, Trends in the History of Science, 9783319400822. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-40082-2_6⟩. ⟨hal-03410097⟩