دانلود کتاب The Volterra chronicles : the life and times of an extraordinary mathematician, 1860-1940

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Cover
Title page
Contents
Illustrations
“The Jewish mathematician”
“A new era is dawning,” 1860
“This, above all, I promise,” 1863-1870
“That damned passion,” 1874-1877
“Long live the republic,” 1878-1882
“Professor by deed,” 1880-1883
“Our professor of small intervals,” 1883-1893
“The life I live,” 1887-1895
“Demonstrations of their resentment,” 1893-1900
“God liberate us from his symbols”
“It is the greatest desire of my life,” 1900
“Most important for our fatherland”
“Will they create a new world?”
“A political man”
“A professor in America”
“Empires die”
Epilogue
Sir Edmund Whittaker, “Vito Volterra, 1860-1940”
On the attempts to apply mathematics to the biological and social sciences
Science at the present moment and the new Italian society for the progress of science
Acknowledgments
Selected bibliography
Notes
Index
Back Cover