Mario Pieri and his contributions to geometry and foundations of mathematics
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Mario Pieri and his contributions to geometry and foundations of mathematics
zbMATH Open document ID: 0785.01022
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 1994-04-13T00:00:00Z
review text: The author rescues from obscurity the contributions of Mario Pieri (1860- 1913) to algebraic geometry and foundations of mathematics (particular the foundations of geometry). Pieri made a strong impression on Pincherle, whose lectures he attended. While working at Turin Pieri became interested in the Peano program, which influenced his later work. Most of his papers on algebraic geometry were written while he was at Turin. From 1900 to 1908 he was at the University of Catania, where he continued his earlier axiomatic approach to projective geometry. The author believes Pieri's obscurity was the result of being overshadowed to some extent by Peano, and also to the general lack of success of Peano's ideas in his own time. In addition she notes that Pieri's contributions were as a developer and polisher of the fundamental ideas of Peano, a role that seldom wins as much admiration as that of the pioneer.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
zbMATH DE Number: 468993
zbMATH Keywords: algebraic geometry
zbMATH Keywords: foundations of mathematics
author: Elena Anne Corie Marchisotto
reviewed by: Roger L. Cooke
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: hmat.1993.1024
OpenAlex ID: W2079631650
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DOI: 10.1006/HMAT.1993.1024
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 468993