Circolo Matematico di Palermo

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Short description: Italian mathematical society

The Circolo Matematico di Palermo (Mathematical Circle of Palermo) is an Italian mathematical society, founded in Palermo by Sicilian geometer Giovanni B. Guccia in 1884.[1] It began accepting foreign members in 1888,[1] and by the time of Guccia's death in 1914 it had become the foremost international mathematical society, with approximately one thousand members.[2] However, subsequently to that time it declined in influence.[1]

Publications

Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo  
|Subject |Discipline}}Mathematics
LanguageEnglish
Edited byC. Ciliberto
G. Dal Maso
Pasquale Vetro
Publication details
HistorySeries 1: 1888–1941
Series 2: 1952—
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media (since 2008) (Italy)
FrequencyTriannual
limited
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo
Indexing
ISSN0009-725X (print)
1973-4409 (web)
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Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, the journal of the society, was published in a first series from 1885 to 1941 and in a second ongoing series beginning in 1952. Since 2008 it has been published by Springer Science+Business Media; current editors are C Ciliberto, G. Dal Maso, and Pasquale Vetro.[3]

Influential papers published in the Rendiconti include Henri Poincaré's On the Dynamics of the Electron (1906). The Rendiconti also provided the introduction of normal numbers,<ref>{{citation

| journal = Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo
| pages = 247–271
| title = Les probabilités dénombrables et leurs applications arithmétiques
| volume = 27
| year = 1909

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