Circolo Matematico di Palermo
The Circolo Matematico di Palermo is an Italian mathematical society. It was founded in 1884 by Giovanni Guccia (1855–1914) and is the oldest mathematical society in Italy, apart from the general academies.
Guccia was a student of Luigi Cremona in Rome and, after completing his doctorate in Rome in 1880, taught in Palermo , from 1889 as a professor of geometry. He came from a wealthy family and was able to raise the funds for his newly founded company and its magazine, Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo . Initially there were 27 members, from 1887 foreigners were also allowed. In 1893 Guccia founded a publishing house for mathematics books in Palermo, where the society's magazine was also published. Guccia had great success with his company, for which he actively promoted leading French and German mathematicians, although Palermo was not at that time one of the mathematical centers of Europe or Italy (like Pisa, Rome), and appeared in his magazine in the first decade 20th century very important works, for example by Henri Poincaré or Hermann Weyl . Guccia was able to increase the number of members to over 1000 before the First World War . The importance of his company declined after his death in 1914.
The Society's journal is published today by Springer Verlag .
literature
- Aldo Brigaglia, Guido Masotto, Il Circolo Matematico di Palermo , ed.Dedalo , Bari 1996.