Images of Italian Mathematics in France: The Latin Sisters, from Risorgimento to Fascism (Trends in the History of Science)

The contributions in this proceedings volume offer a new perspective on the mathematical ties between France and Italy, and reveal how mathematical developments in these two countries affected one another. The focus is above all on the Peninsula's influence on French mathematicians, counterbalancing the historically predominant perception that French mathematics was a model for Italian mathematicians. In the process, the book details a subtle network of relations between the two countries, where mathematical exchanges fit into the changing and evolving framework of Italian political and academic structures. It reconsiders the issue of nationalities in all of its complexity, an aspect often neglected in research on the history of mathematics. The works in this volume are selected contributions from a conference held in Lille and Lens (France) in November 2013 on Images of Italian Mathematics in France from Risorgimento to Fascism . The authors include respected historians of mathematics, philosophers of science, historians, and specialists for Italy and intellectual relations, ensuring the book will be of great interest to their peers. Front Matter....Pages i-v By way of Preface: Daladier’s Stay in Italy in 1910. A Mirror of the French Look at Italy....Pages 1-11 Introduction: The Latin Sisters and Mathematics....Pages 13-23 Italian Mathematicians as Seen by French Biographical Dictionaries in the 19th Century....Pages 25-43 The 27 Italies of Camille Jordan....Pages 45-91 Picard and the Italian Mathematicians: The History of Three Prix Bordin ....Pages 93-126 Lines on the Horizon....Pages 127-179 The French ‘Analysts’ and Peano’s Mathematical Logic: Couturat’s Remarques to Borel, Baire and Lebesgue....Pages 181-211 Louis Rougier’s Reception of the Peano School....Pages 213-254 The Eyes of French Mathematicians on Tullio Levi-Civita—the Case of Hydrodynamics (1900–1930)....Pages 255-288 French Mathematicians at the Bologna Congress (1928). Between Participation and Boycott....Pages 289-309 Back Matter....Pages 311-316