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From 1908 to 1914 is when the Circolo Matematico di Palermo and the Rendiconti experienced their maximum splendor. The society became the largest mathematical society in the world in 1914, and the journal acquired high international prestige by publishing first-rate results. The peak of this process was the celebration in 1914 of the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the mathematical society.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 19 (1905), Note statistiche, p. xxx.

  2. 2.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 1 (1887), Biblioteca del CMP, Pubblicazioni inviati dagli autori, pp. 29–44.

  3. 3.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 1 (1887), Mathematical Library: Non-periodical publications, pp. 94–118.

  4. 4.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 1 (1887), Pubblicazioni non periodiche, pp. 89–93.

  5. 5.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 19 (1905), Note statistiche, p. xxx.

  6. 6.

    Ibid.

  7. 7.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 22 (1906), Note statistiche, pp. xi–xii.

  8. 8.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 25 (1908), Note statistiche, pp. xiii–xiv.

  9. 9.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 2 (1888), pp. 88–89.

  10. 10.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 5 (1891), pp. 284–285.

  11. 11.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 8 (1894), pp. 167–168.

  12. 12.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 11 (1897), pp. 184–185.

  13. 13.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 14 (1900), pp. 306–307.

  14. 14.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 17 (1903), pp. 169–170.

  15. 15.

    Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 21 (1906), pp. 218–220.

  16. 16.

    Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 1 (1906), p. 16.

  17. 17.

    Ibid.

  18. 18.

    Letter from Picard to Guccia, Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 36 (1913), pp. 277–278.

  19. 19.

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  20. 20.

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  21. 21.

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  22. 22.

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  23. 23.

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  24. 24.

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  25. 25.

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  26. 26.

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  27. 27.

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  28. 28.

    A. Lichnerowicz , Saluto in nome della comunità matematica internazionale, Atti del Convegno celebrativo del 1o centenario del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 8 (1985), p. 17.

  29. 29.

    J. Dieudonné , review of “The Mathematical Circle of Palermo” by A. Brigaglia, Mathematical reviews, MR863153 (88m:01104), 1988.

  30. 30.

    Discorso del Prof. Ing. Michele Albeggiani, XXX anniversario della fondazione del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Adunanza solenne del 14 aprile 1914, Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 9 (1914), p. 14.

  31. 31.

    The printing machine was Maroni type, from the firm Augusto Dell’Orto from Milan. The Archive of the Circolo contains many documents and invoices related to the printing business.

  32. 32.

    Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 3 (1908).

  33. 33.

    Notar Ferdinando Lionti, October 31, 1914. Archivio Notarile Distrettuale di Palermo.

  34. 34.

    Ibid.

  35. 35.

    Ibid.

  36. 36.

    Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 3 (1908), pp. 26–27.

  37. 37.

    Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 3 (1908), pp. 43–46.

  38. 38.

    Letter from Guccia to Mittag-Leffler, July 12, 1908. Folder Mittag-Leffler, Archive of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

  39. 39.

    For the modification of the statute , the favorable voting of 2/3 of the voters was required (Article 44 of the Statute).

  40. 40.

    Letter from Guccia to Mittag-Leffler, October 25, 1908. Center for History of Science of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

  41. 41.

    Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 4 (1909), pp. 3–6.

  42. 42.

    Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 7 (1912), pp. 4-6.

  43. 43.

    Minutes of the meeting held on January 21, 1910. Archive of the Faculty of Science of the University of Palermo.

  44. 44.

    Notar Ferdinando Lionti, October 31, 1914. Archivio Notarile Distrettuale di Palermo.

  45. 45.

    Minutes of the meeting held on June 7, 1910. Archive of the Faculty of Science of the University of Palermo.

  46. 46.

    E.W. Hobson, E.A.H. Love (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge University Press, 1913, Cambridge, p. 40.

  47. 47.

    Letter from Guccia to Volterra, December 3, 1912. Vito Volterra Collection, Archive of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

  48. 48.

    Ibid., December 29, 1912.

  49. 49.

    Adunanza, January 10, 1909. Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 4 (1909), pp. 2-3.

  50. 50.

    Letter from Guccia to Volterra, October 30, 1913. Vito Volterra Collection, Archive of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

  51. 51.

    Ibid., December 30, 1913.

  52. 52.

    Ibid., January 7, 1914.

  53. 53.

    Ibid. See also: Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 9 (1914), p. 6.

  54. 54.

    Discorso del Senatore Prof. Dr. Vito Volterra, XXX anniversario della fondazione del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Adunanza solenne del 14 aprile 1914, Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 9 (1914), pp. 18–19.

  55. 55.

    Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 9 (1914), pp. 21–65.

  56. 56.

    M. Di Carlo, M.A. Spadaro, Commemorare a Palermo. Le Medaglie di Antonio Ugo , Kalós Edizioni d’arte, 2014, Palermo.

  57. 57.

    Ibid., pp. 66–71.

  58. 58.

    Sottoscrizione per la medaglia d’oro offerta al prof. G.B. Guccia, Archive of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

  59. 59.

    Annuario Circ. Mat. Palermo 1914, Note statistiche, p. 3.

  60. 60.

    Annuario Circ. Mat. Palermo 1914, Note statistiche, pp. 7–8.

  61. 61.

    Discorso del Prof. Ing. Michele Albeggiani, XXX anniversario della fondazione del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Adunanza solenne del 14 aprile 1914, Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 9 (1914), p. 15.

  62. 62.

    Letter from Guccia to Cerruti , June 15, 1905. Folder Cerruti , Archive of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

  63. 63.

    Ibid.

  64. 64.

    Letter from Cerruti to Guccia, June 17, 1905. Folder Cerruti , Archive of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

  65. 65.

    No other trace of this topic has been found in the letters in the Archive of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo, the Archives Henri-Poincaré, and the Center for History of Science of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (where the correspondence of Mittag-Leffler is now stored).

  66. 66.

    Letter from Guccia to Cerruti , June 15, 1905. Folder Cerruti , Archive of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

  67. 67.

    Letter from Guccia to Dini , August 4, 1907. Folder Dini , Archive of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

  68. 68.

    Letter from Guccia to Poincaré, December 19, 1905. Folder Poincaré, Archive of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

  69. 69.

    Letter from Poincaré to Guccia, December 24, 1905. Folder Poincaré, Archive of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

  70. 70.

    Letter from Guccia to Mittag-Leffler, December 28, 1905. Center for History of Science of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

  71. 71.

    Ibid., February 10, 1906.

  72. 72.

    E.S. Allen, The Scientific Work of Vito Volterra, The American Mathematical Monthly, 48 (1941), pp. 516–519, p. 516.

  73. 73.

    U. Bottazzinni, Italy. Ettore Bortolotti . In: J.W. Dauben, C.J. Scriba, (eds.), Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development, Birkhäuser, 2002, Basel, pp. 90–91.

  74. 74.

    Letter from Guccia to Bortolotti , December 3, 1906. Folder Bortolotti , Archive of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

  75. 75.

    Ibid., May 12, 1907.

  76. 76.

    R.G. Ayoub, Paolo Ruffini’s Contributions to the Quintic, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci., 23 (1980), pp. 253–277.

  77. 77.

    Letter from Cauchy to Ruffini, September 20, 1821. In: E. Bortolotti , Opere matematiche di Paolo Ruffini, Vol. III (mathematical correspondence), Unione Matematica Italiana, Ed. Cremonese, 1954, Rome, pp. 88–89.

  78. 78.

    Adunanza, August 31, 1907. Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, 2 (1907), p. 41.

  79. 79.

    Letter from Guccia to Bortolotti , December 30, 1907. Folder Bortolotti , Archive of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo.

  80. 80.

    E. Bortolotti , La pubblicazione delle opere matematiche di Paolo Ruffini. In: Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici: Bologna, 3–10 Settembre 1928 (VI). Nicola Zanichelli, 1929–1932, Bologna, vol. 6, pp. 401–406.

  81. 81.

    E. Bortolotti , Opere matematiche di Paolo Ruffini, Vol. I, Circolo Matematico di Palermo, 1915, Palermo; Vol. II, Unione Matematica Italiana, Ed. Cremonese, 1943 (facsimile edition, 1953), Rome; Vol. III (mathematical correspondence), Unione Matematica Italiana, Ed. Cremonese, 1954, Rome.

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Bongiorno, B., Curbera, G.P. (2018). Maximum Splendor. In: Giovanni Battista Guccia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78667-4_6

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