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Bibliography Bibliography This bibliography includes all, and only, works referred to in the present volume. It includes the publications that Pieri cited in the papers whose translations are found in chapter 3 and section 4.2. Its entries for Pieri’s own works duplicate those in chapter 6. The present book mentions more than one author named Pieri; citations that include this surname only are references to Mario Pieri. Alphabetization of the entries ignored diacritical marks, punctuation, and spaces within names. Some cited works have appeared in several editions. Information about the first often has his- torical interest, even when reference to a later one is more appropriate. In such cases, both dates are given, as in Amaldi, Ugo. [1938] 1954. The remaining data in such citations refer to the later edition unless otherwise specified. Some journals cited here identify their volumes with year ranges rather than single years. An article in such a journal is identified by its year of publication; the range is given in parentheses following the volume number. Book citations often include an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and a Library of Congress (LC) catalog number. Caution! A book may have similar editions with different ISBNs. Moreover, the LC number is not standard, unless the book was cataloged upon publication and its number included on the copyright page. From one library to the next, the LC number may vary slightly—particularly its last digits. Many cited publications are now available on the Inter- net,1 but no standard means of locating them has yet evolved. Notations such as Internet: Cornell are provided to help readers locate publications in academic Internet repositories. The word after the colon (:) identifies an Internet http:// address in the following list: Cornell......... cdl.library.cornell.edu EBSCO ......... ejournals.ebsco.com Göttingen ....... gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de Gutenberg ...... www.gutenberg.org JSTOR ......... www.jstor.org Michigan . www.hti.umich.edu/u/umhistmath NUMDAM ...... archive.numdam.org Paris ........... gallica.bnf.fr Poland ......... matwbn.icm.edu.pl ScienceDirect .... www.sciencedirect.com Many citations contain brief annotations that explain their origin, import, or relationship to other items. An annotation may include a code in the format JFM: 12.0123.01 Surname 1 Most Internet sources are free, but some—for example JSTOR —are free only through libraries with paid subscriptions. 402 Bibliography to indicate, for example, that the work cited was reviewed in the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik, volume 12, page 0123, item 01, by the named reviewer. This journal may have LC: QA1.J3, and is available on the Internet at http://www.emis.de/MATH/JFM/JFM.html. Similarly, a code in the format BSM2: 12(date)0123 indicates that the work cited was reviewed in Bulletin des sciences mathématiques, seconde partie, volume 12(date), page 0123. This journal may have LC: QA1.B8. A code in the format JSL: 1234 indicates that the work cited was listed as author 123, work 4, in volume 1 or 3 of the Journal of Symbolic Logic (Church 1936). That bibliography is available on the Internet via JSTOR; the journal may have LC: BC1.J6. A code in the format MR: 1234567(date:12345) indicates that the work cited was reviewed in Mathematical Reviews, available on the Internet at http://www.ams.org/mathscinet.2 Each citation concludes with a list [in brackets] of the sections of this book and other items in this bibliography that contain references to it. As much as possible, journal and book titles appear in the present bibliography as they did on the published title pages. This practice, advocated by current documentation authorities,3 is consistent with major catalogs now accessible and searchable electronically. But readers may encounter difficulty matching titles, particularly of journals, with nomenclature in past literature, or in catalogs based on it, which often differs considerably from that of title pages. For example, the Giornale di matematiche was often referred to as the Giornale di Battaglini, after the original editor; and the journal published by the organization known as the Dorpater Naturforscher- gesellschaft may have been listed by an institutional name—Universität Tartu—or in the language—Estonian—more politically correct at the time the catalog was constructed.4 Agazzi, Evandro. 1985. Prefazione. In Borga, Freguglia, and Palladino 1985, 7–10. [Cited in 5.3.] Amaldi, Ugo. [1938] 1954. Della vita e delle opere di Salvatore Pincherle. In Pincherle 1954, 2–16. Commemoration originally presented to the Reale Accademia dei Lincei in 1938. [Cited in 1.3 and item Pincherle 1954.] Amato, Vincenzo. 1946. Sebastiano Catania. Annuario dell’Università di Catania per l’anno accademico 1945–1946: 244–245. [Cited in 1.3.] Anellis, Irving H. 1991. The first Russell paradox. In Drucker 1991, 33–46. [Cited in 4.1 and item Drucker 1991.] Aprile, Giorgio. 1946. Giuseppe Marletta. Bollettino della Unione Matematica Italiana (series 3) 8: 55–56. LC: QA1.U6. [Cited in 1.3.] 2 JFM reviewers are identified because many played other roles in the life and legacy of Mario Pieri. Some indicated JFM and MR reviews refer to earlier editions of the work cited. Some early MR reviews were numbered in a different format. 3 Chicago 1993, 15.208–209; Mann 1998. 4 The serials list in May 1973, Appendix 2, may help with this problem. Bibliography 403 Archimedes. [1897] 2002a. On the Sphere and Cylinder, book I. In Archimedes [1897] 2002b, 1–55. Pieri cited this work, but no specific edition, in 1908a. [Cited in 3.4 and items Archi- medes [1897] 2002b and Pieri 1908a.] ———. [1897] 2002b. The Works of Archimedes, edited by Thomas L. Heath. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. LC: QA31.A692. ISBN: 0-486-42084-1. MR: 2000800. Originally pub- lished in Cambridge, England, in 1897 by Cambridge University Press, with a supplement in 1912. [Cited in item Archimedes [1897] 2002a.] Arrighi, Gino. 1981. L’archivio di Mario Pieri. Accademia Lucchese di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, Studi e testi, 15. Lucca: Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore. LC: Z6616.P546.A77. This describes Pieri [no date]. [Cited in 6.6, 6.7, and items Pieri 1898a, 1905a, [no date].] ———, editor. 1997. Lettere a Mario Pieri (1884–1913). Quaderni P.RI.ST.EM 6 per l’archivio della corrispondenza dei matematici italiani. Milan: ELEUSI, Sezione P.RI.ST.EM. The series title is “Booklets of the Project on Historical and Methodological Research (Progetto Ricerche Storiche e Metodologiche) for archiving the correspondence of Italian mathematicians.” In the present book, these letters are cited under this publication, not under their authors’ names. [Cited in 1.3, 2.5, 4.1, 5.3, 6.6, 6.7, permissions, and item Pieri [1901] 1997.] Aspray, William. 1991. Oswald Veblen and the origins of mathematical logic at Princeton. In Drucker 1991, 54–70. MR: 1234045 (94g:03004). [Cited in 1.3 and item Drucker 1991.] Associazione per l’Insegnamento della Fisica, Sezione di Catania. 2005. Internet website http:// www.ct.infn.it/~aif/boggio_lera.htm. [Cited in 1.3.] Avellone, Maurizio, and Marco Borga. 1997. Mario Pieri e i fondamenti della geometria. Lettera matematica P.RI.ST.EM. 26: 26–51. The acronym stands for Progetto Ricerche Storiche e Metodologiche. [Cited in 2.2.] Avellone, Maurizio, Aldo Brigaglia, and Carmela Zappulla. 2002. The foundations of projective geometry in Italy from De Paolis to Pieri. Archive for History of Exact Sciences 56: 363–425. LC: Q125.A1.A75. Internet: EBSCO. MR: 1918541 (2003g: 01028). [Cited in 2.3.] Bachmann, Friedrich. 1973. Aufbau der Geometrie aus dem Spiegelungsbegriff. Second edition. Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 96. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. LC: QA473. B3. ISBN: 3-540-06136-3. MR: 0107835 (21 #6557), 0346643 (49 #11368). [Cited in 3.10.] Baldwin, James M., editor. 1901–1905. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology; Including Many of the Principal Conceptions of Ethics, Logic, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion, Mental Pathology, Anthropology, Biology, Neurology, Physiology, Economics, Political and Social Philosophy, Philology, Physical Science, and Education; and Giving a Terminology in English, French, German and Italian. Three volumes in four. London: Macmillan and company. LC: B41.B3. [Cited in the chapter 2 introduction.] Baltzer, Richard. 1885. 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