Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
3-7-2018
Abstract
"This is Giorgio's Israel last book, which appeared only a few weeks after his untimely death, in September 2015. For many reasons, it can be considered as his intellectual legacy, since it comes back, in a new and organic way, to many of the research topics to which he devoted his life and his many publications, which include several papers in Historia Mathematica. One of these papers, co-authored with M. Menghini, appeared in vol. 25/4, 1998 and was devoted to Poincaré's and Enriques's opposite views on qualitative analysis, which is a theme also dealt with in this book (pp. 117–122)."
Recommended Citation
Marco Panza. Giorgio Israel, Meccanicismo. Trionfi e miserie della visione meccanica del mondo, Zaniclelli, Bologna 2015 pp. xiv+322, ISBN 978-88-08-52129-3; 28€.. Historia Mathematica, 2018, pp.186-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2018.02.001
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Elsevier
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Comments
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a book review that was accepted for publication in Historia Mathematica. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Historia Mathematica, volume 45, issue 2, in 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2018.02.001
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