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Series: Archimedes: New Studies in the History of Science and Technology, 22. 8vo. vii, 194 pp. Bibliography, index. Paper-backed boards. Fine. ISBN: 9789048127399 Vito Volterra KBE FRS HFRSE was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations, being one of the founders of functional analysis. From Publisher: When it was published in 1543, Copernicus's new astronomy had an enormous impact on intellectual life in early modern Europe, but the reception of his new ideas differed fundamentally from one country to another. Rienk Vermij discusses how--unlike in Roman Catholic lands--discussion in the heavily Calvinist Dutch Republic was initially dominated by humanist scholars who judged Copernicus's work on its mathematical merits. Yet even in this environment, it could not escape eventual philosophical, religious, and political controversies. This book shows how Copernicus's astronomy changed from an alternative cosmology into an established worldview in the Dutch Republic. / Laurent Mazliak is a mathematician, specializing in stochastic optimization, and a historian of mathematics. He is involved in various studies on mathematics and mathematical communities during the first half of 20th century, with a special interest in probability theory. He is a historian of science at Sorbonne University, a specialist in the history of mathematics, and a researcher at the Laboratory of Probability, Statistics and Modeling (LPSM), specializing in stochastic control. / Rossana Tazzioli is at the Laboratoire Paul Painlevà , Università de Lille.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. xii, 359 pp. Original printed wrappers. Edges slightly chipped, spine a bit stained, else Very Good. 'A joint collaboration between Pérès and Volterra led to the first volume of Theorie generale des fonctionnelles published in 1936. Although the project was intended to lead to further volumes only this one was ever published. This work is discussed in [3] where the author points out that the book belongs to an older tradition, being based on ideas introduced by Volterra himself from 1887 onwards. By the time the work was published the ideas it contained were no longer in the mainstream of development of functional analysis since topological and algebraic concepts introduced by Banach, von Neumann, Stone and others were determining the direction of the subject. However, the analysis which Pérès and Volterra studied proved important in developing ideas of mathematical physics rather than analysis and Pérès made good use of them in his applications' (MacTutor History of Mathematics Web site; [3] = A Guerraggio, The 'Théorie générale des fonctionnelles' of V Volterra and J Pérès (Italian), in Italian mathematics between the two world wars, Milan-Gargnano, 1986 (Bologna, 1987), 187-207).

First edition. Paris: Hermann & Cie. 1935. Volterra, Vito (1860-1940) and D'Ancona, Umberto. Les associations biologiques au point de vue mathematique. 8vo. [2], 96, [2]pp. Text diagrams. Paris: Hermann & Cie., 1935. 259 x 168 mm. Original printed wrappers (uncut & unopened). Fine copy. Book Id: 51060 First Edition. Volterra, an eminent mathematician, initiated the mathematical treatment of competitive exclusion in mixed populations with a paper published in 1926 (see G-M 145.64), and continued working in this field for the remainder of his career. "Volterra, described somewhere by Robert May as the greatest mathematician to make a contribution to biology, was stimulated to develop his ideas by the changes in proportion of fishes in the Mediterranean that had resulted from suspension of commercial fisheries during the war years of 1915-1918, to which phenomenon his attention was drawn by his son-in-law, Umberto D'Ancona, a very eminent hydrobiologist" (Hutchinson, Introduction to Population Ecology, p. 120). The present work, written with D'Ancona, summarizes the work of Volterra and others in this field; it makes reference to the writings of G. F. Gause (author of The Struggle for Existence, 1934) and A. J. Lotka, both of whom were influenced by Volterra's work. DSB.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. VOLTERRA, Vito (1860-1940) and Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932), Six papers in four parts, 1895, on the Theory of Polar Wandering, all in Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino. These include: "Sopra lo spostamento del polo sulla terra" (30 No. 12 pp. 515-523, May 1895); "Sul moto del polo terrestre", 30 No. 15 pp. 845-852, June 1895) by Giuseppe Peano AND "Sulla Teoria dei moti del Polo Terrestre" 30 No. 6 pp. 167-172, February 1895); "Sui moti periodici del polo terrestre" 30 No. 12 pp. 815-816, May 1895); "Sulla Teoria dei moti del Pollo nella Ipotesti della Plasticita Terrestre" 30 No. 14 pp. 461-474, June 1895) and "Osservazioni sulla mia Nota: 'Sui moti periodici del polo terrestre' " 30 No. 15 pp. 815-816, June 1895), all by Vito Volterra. The four issues are in their original wrappers in Very Good condition and are housed in a beautiful custom clamshell box. __+__ "Polar wandering is the shifting of the Earth's axis of rotation over time, a phenomenon associated with continental drift. Polar wandering was first proposed by the Compte de Buffon, but Italian mathematicians Guiseppe Peano and Vito Volterra were the first two scientists to study it rigorously, with their first reports appearing in 1895 in these four issues of the Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin. Peano's papers are titled: "Concerning the movement of the Earth's poles" and "On the movement of the Earth's pole." Volterra's papers are titled: "On the theory of the motions of the poles in the hypothesis of Terrestrial Plasticity;" and "Observations on my Note: 'On the periodic motions of the earth's pole'."--Wenner, History of Physics Arthur A. Meyerhoff, et al, Surge Tectonics: A New Hypothesis of Global Geodynamics (Kluwer, 1996), pointing out that the Buffon idea was generally adrift in his massive 44-volume work, and only gained popularity with the work of Peano and Volerra.