Umberto Bottazzini

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Umberto Bottazzini (* 1947 in Viadana ) is an Italian mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematical History and Fundamentals of Mathematics at the University of Milan .

Bottazzini dealt among other things with the development of analysis in the 19th century, especially Bernhard Riemann , Augustin-Louis Cauchy (whose Cours d'Analyse he re-edited with commentary, published in Bologna 1990) and Karl Weierstrass .

Bottazzini has been a corresponding member of the International Academy for the History of Sciences since 1993. In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Beijing ( “Algebraic truths” vs. “geometric fantasies”: Weierstrass' response to Riemann ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

  • with Jeremy Gray : Hidden Harmony - Geometric Fantasies. The rise of complex function theory. Springer, New York NY et al. 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-5724-4 .
  • as editor with Amy Dalhan Dalmedico : Changing Images in Mathematics. From the French Revolution to the New Millennium (= Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. 13). Routledge, London et al. 2001, ISBN 0-415-27118-5 .
  • with Edoardo Boncinelli: La serva padrona. Fascino e potere della matematica (= Scienza e idee. 73). Cortina, Milan 2000, ISBN 88-7078-651-X .
  • The Theory of Complex Functions 1780–1900. In: Hans Niels Jahnke (Ed.): History of Analysis. Spectrum - Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg et al. 1999, ISBN 3-8274-0392-8 , pp. 267-328.
  • Il flauto di Hilbert. Storia della matematica moderna e contemporanea. Utet Libreria, Turin 1990, ISBN 88-7750-090-5 (English: with Elena Anne Marchisotto, Patrizia Miller: Hilberts Flute - the History of Modern Mathematics. Springer, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 0-387-98695-2 ).
  • Il calcolo sublime. Storia dell'analisi matematica da Euler a Weierstrass. Boringhieri, Turin 1981, (English: The Higher Calculus. A History of Real and Complex Analysis from Euler to Weierstrass. Translated by Warren van Egmond. Springer, New York NY et al. 1986, ISBN 0-387-96302-2 ).

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SURNAME Bottazzini, Umberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Viadana