The Jewish Mathematical Diaspora from Fascist Italy - Erika Luciano

The Jewish Mathematical Diaspora from Fascist Italy

Looking for a Space of Intellectual Survival

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
XXXIX, 753 Seiten
2025
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-64895-3 (ISBN)
213,99 inkl. MwSt

Delving into previously undisclosed archival sources, this monograph offers a meticulously researched portrayal of Italian Jewish mathematicians amidst the turmoil sparked by the 1938 Italian Racial Laws. Forced migration due to fascist anti-Semitism saw the exodus of numerous Jewish intellectuals. Highlighting the experiences of select academic mathematicians such as Guido Fubini, Gino Fano, Beniamino Segre, Alessandro Terracini, and others who fled Italy, this work casts a light on a diaspora that presents unique aspects thanks to pre-existing networks of international scientific solidarity. Despite challenges stemming from language, society, and institutions, their narratives reveal the profound human dimensions of adversity, choice, and camaraderie.

Suitable for scholars and students of 20th-century history, as well as a wider audience intrigued by Italy's complex past, these pages offer invaluable insights into a dark chapter of the country's history.

Erika Luciano is professor of history of mathematics at the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences of the University of Torino, Italy. Her research focuses on social history of mathematics and science, considered as human enterprises, in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2022 Luciano has been awarded the international prize for young researchers in history of mathematics by the Italian Mathematical Union and the Italian Society for the History of Mathematics.

- Part I The migration phenomenon.- From the ghetto to the city, and thence to the country.- The fateful year 1938: the persecution of the Italian Jews.- Fleeing from Italy.- Gallery 1 Those who failed to leave.- Gallery 2 Dispersed Families.- Under another heaven.- Coming Back to Italy.- Part II Individuals.- 'An illustrious migrant': Guido Fubini in Princeton.- "Never go to a country likely to be at war with Italy": Gino Fano in Switzerland.- Bringing to England "the foremost of the younger School of Italian geometers": B. Segre.- An episode of partial professional retraining: Alessandro Terracini in Argentina.- Beppo Levi, a leader in his host country.- Bonaparte Colombo: the inability to return to normal life.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.1.2025
Reihe/Serie Science Networks. Historical Studies
Zusatzinfo XX, 600 p. 65 illus., 36 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Allgemeines / Lexika
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte Gino Fano • Guido Fubini • Italian Racial Laws from 1938 • Italian school of algebraic geometry • Jewish Mathematical Emigration from Fascist Italy • Tullio Levi-Civita
ISBN-10 3-031-64895-1 / 3031648951
ISBN-13 978-3-031-64895-3 / 9783031648953
Zustand Neuware
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