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A time-circumscribed episode with intrinsic historical value is reconstructed in this paper, with the aim of assessing the international isolation of Italian mathematicians in the last phase of the fascist regime. The announcement that Francesco Tricomi gave of the creation of a new journal of mathematical bibliography, Mathematical Reviews, and the consequent reactions of H. Geppert, W. Blaschke and E. Bompiani return the regressive anti-internationalist parable which the Italian mathematical community travelled in those years., Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino, Vol 11 No 2 (2022)

This paper presents some reflections on binary arithmetic and its applications by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932). The topic is relevant both for the intrinsic historical, mathematical, philosophical, theological, and linguistic interests motivating its development, and for the social implications derived by the design and the realization of machines. In the light of Leibniz’s texts on dyadic between 1663 and 1705, we highlight the results that he obtained as well as the aims he did not achieve, both in the theoretical and in the applicative field. We also underline the ability of the German philosopher and mathematician to involve high-level experts, teachers, and academics from various countries in his projects on dyadic. With regard to Peano, we analyse the sources that between 1898 and 1903 brought him to deal with the history of the binary number system in the wake of Leibniz. Based on the examination of some unpublished manuscripts, we reconstruct his research and show how it culminates in the construction of a binary shorthand machine, in which mathematics, linguistics and technology merged together. For both authors, research in different cultural fields and their historical status constituted an important step in identifying and achieving their objectives.

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The aim of this paper is to study G. Fano’s (1871-1952) personal collection of volumes and offprints, currently preserved in the Special Mathematical Library “G. Peano” of the University of Turin. This type of investigation allows to examine some aspects connected to Fano’s international relationships, as well as to give a glimpse of his personal trajectory. Furthermore, the analysis performed through the digital humanities software Palladio provides an interesting overview on the cultural roots of his research activity. Finally, following the works on C. Segre’s and A. Terracini’s library heritages, this case-study adds another piece to the reconstruction of the cultural heritage of the Italian School of algebraic geometry., Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino, V. 10 N. 1 (2021)

After having hinted at the consequences of racial laws (1938) on the milieu of mathematical instruction in Turin, we will focus on the biographical and professional trajectory of Emilio Artom. A former disciple of Corrado Segre and Giuseppe Peano, at the beginning of the 20th century Artom was among the most outstanding Italian researchers in mathematics education. For this scholar, who belonged to the emancipated Piedmont Jewry, persecution determined a dramatic awareness of his identity but also a sort of return to his roots. To reconstruct the scientific biography of Artom does not therefore mean to indulge in hagiography, but rather to put history at the service of memory with the aim to illustrate, through the existential path of a single individual, the fate of an entire community of Jewish mathematics teachers, devastated from racial persecution., Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino, V. 8, N. 1 (2019)

This paper describes the structure and consistency of Emilio Artom’s miscellany, which represents a documental patrimony of historical relevance and one of the most interesting collections of offprints held in the Special Mathematical Library at the Department of Mathematics ‘G. Peano’ of the University of Turin., Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino, V. 8, N. 2 (2019)

After giving a short biographical sketch of F.G. Tricomi, we describe the overall structure and consistency of his archive and library, which - jointly - represent a documental patrimony of great historical and mathematical relevance, in addition to being one of the most rich and important archives held in the Department of Mathematics ‘G. Peano’ of the University of Turin., Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino, V. 7, N. 1 (2018)