References for Cesare Arzelà

Books:

1. J R Goodstein, The Volterra chronicles: the life and times of an extraordinary mathematician, 1860-1940 (AMS, 2007).
2. G F Tricomi, Matematici italiani del primo secolo dello stato unitario (Memorie dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, 1962).

Articles:

3. S Francesconi, The teaching of mathematics at the University of Bologna from 1860 to 1940 (Italian), in Geometry and complex variables, Bologna, 1988/1990 (Dekker, New York, 1991), 415-474.
4. V Gavagna, Cesare Arzelà e l'insegnamento della matematica, Boll. Storia Sci. Mat. 12 (2) (1992), 251-277.
5. V Gavagna, From the theory of functions to functional analysis: the Arzelà-Volterra correspondence (Italian), Boll. Storia Sci. Mat. 14 (1) (1994), 3-89
6. L Martini, The First Lectures in Italy on Galois Theory: Bologna, 1886-1887, Historia Mathematica 26 (1999), 201-223.
7. L Martini, An episode in the evolution of a mathematical community: the case of Cesare Arzelà at Bologna, in Mathematics unbound: the evolution of an international mathematical research community, 1800-1945, Charlottesville, VA, 1999 (Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2002), 165-178.

March 2011