Cesare Burali-Forti

Cesare Burali-Forti (13 August 1861 – 21 January 1931) was an Italian mathematician, after whom the Burali-Forti paradox is named. He was a prolific writer, with 180 publications.

Biography
Burali-Forti was born in Arezzo, and he obtained his degree from the University of Pisa in 1884. He was an assistant of Giuseppe Peano in Turin from 1894 to 1896, during which time he discovered a theorem which Bertrand Russell later realised contradicted a previously proved result by Georg Cantor. The contradiction came to be called the Burali-Forti paradox of Cantorian set theory. He died in Turin.

Books by C. Burali-Forti

 * Analyse vectorielle générale: Applications à la mécanique et à la physique. with Roberto Marcolongo (Mattéi & co., Pavia, 1913).
 * Corso di geometria analitico-proiettiva per gli allievi della R. Accademia Militare (G. B. Petrini di G. Gallizio, Torino, 1912).
 * Geometria descrittiva (S. Lattes & c., Torino, 1921).
 * Introduction à la géométrie différentielle, suivant la méthode de H. Grassmann (Gauthier-Villars, 1897).
 * Lezioni Di Geometria Metrico-Proiettiva (Fratelli Bocca, Torino, 1904).
 * Meccanica razionale with Tommaso Boggio (S. Lattes & c., Torino, 1921).
 * Logica Matematica (Hoepli, Milano, 1894).
 * Complete listing of publications and bibliography, 8 pages.