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Mathematicians at war (Record no. 426273)

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International Standard Book Number 9789048127405
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Classification number 510.9
Edition number 23
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Personal name Mazliak, Laurent.
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Title Mathematicians at war
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Volterra and his French colleagues in World War I /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Laurent Mazliak, Rossana Tazzioli.
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Koha item type E-BOOKS
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Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Dordrecht :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Springer Netherlands,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture 2009.
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-- X, 194 p. 10 illus.
-- online resource.
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-- Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
-- 1385-0180 ;
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-- I. Introduction to the letters -- What Is this Book About? -- The Protagonists -- Italy and France at the Eve of WW1 -- Vito Volterra and his institutional activity -- Volterra and Italian Interventionism Between 1914 and 1915 -- II. Volterra’s exchanges with Borel, Hadamard -- Volterra’s Exchanges with Borel, Hadamard and Picard in World War One -- III. Appendices -- The Case of Pérès -- Persuading the American Jewish Community -- French Propaganda -- Cultural Relations Between Italy and France.
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-- Numerous scientists have taken part in the war effort during World War I, but few gave it the passionate energy of the prominent Italian mathematician Volterra. As a convinced supporter of the cause of Britain and France, he struggled vigorously to carry Italy into the war in May 1915 and then developed a frenetic activity to support the war effort, going himself to the front, even though he was 55. This activity found an adequate echo with his French colleagues Borel, Hadamard and Picard. The huge correspondence they exchanged during the war, gives an extraordinary view of these activities, and raises numerous fundamental questions about the role of a scientist, and particularly a mathematician during WW I. It also offers a vivid documentation about the intellectual life of the time ; Volterra’s and Borel’s circles in particular were extremely wide and the range of their interests was not limited to their field of specialization. The book proposes the complete transcription of the aforementioned correspondence, annotated with numerous footnotes to give details on the contents. It also offers a general historical introduction to the context of the letters and several complements on themes related to the academic exchanges between France and Italy during the war.
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-- History.
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-- History of Mathematical Sciences.
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-- History of Science.
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-- Tazzioli, Rossana.
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-- Springer eBooks
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-- Printed edition:
-- 9789048127412
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-- Printed edition:
-- 9789400731370
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-- Printed edition:
-- 9789048127399
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-- Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
-- 1385-0180 ;
-- 22
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-- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2740-5
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-- Mathematics and Statistics (Springer-11649)

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