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Jewish Mathematical Diaspora from Fascist Italy

Looking for a Space of Intellectual Survival

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Delving into previously undisclosed archival sources, this monograph offers a meticulously researched portrayal of Italian Jewish mathematicians amidst the turmoil sparked by the 1938 Italian Racial Laws.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-05
Mått155 x 235 x 50 mm
Vikt1 386 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieScience Networks. Historical Studies
Antal sidor768
FörlagBirkhauser Verlag AG
ISBN9783031648953

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Erika Luciano is professor of history of mathematics at the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences of the University of Torino, Italy. Her research focuses on social history of mathematics and science, considered as human enterprises, in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2022 Luciano has been awarded the international prize for young researchers in history of mathematics by the Italian Mathematical Union and the Italian Society for the History of Mathematics.

- Part I The migration phenomenon.- From the ghetto to the city, and thence to the country.- The fateful year 1938: the persecution of the Italian Jews.- Fleeing from Italy.- Gallery 1 Those who failed to leave.- Gallery 2 Dispersed Families.- Under another heaven.- Coming Back to Italy.- Part II Individuals.- ‘An illustrious migrant’: Guido Fubini in Princeton.- “Never go to a country likely to be at war with Italy”: Gino Fano in Switzerland.- Bringing to England “the foremost of the younger School of Italian geometers”: B. Segre.- An episode of partial professional retraining: Alessandro Terracini in Argentina.- Beppo Levi, a leader in his host country.- Bonaparte Colombo: the inability to return to normal life.