Aleksandr Alekseevich Borovkov (on his 70th birthday).
Mathematicians and historians generally regard the modern period in algebraic geometry as starting with the work of Kronecker and Hilbert. But the relevant papers by Hilbert are often regarded as reformulating invariant theory, a much more algebraic topic, while Kronecker has been presented as the doctrinaire exponent of finite, arithmetical mathematics. Attention is then focused on the Italian tradition, leaving the path to Emmy Noether obscure and forgotten.There was, however, a steady flow of...
In the context of the theory of infinite matrices and linear operators, two articles by Peano and by Gramegna on systems of linear differential equations have interesting implications for the reconstruction of research on functional analysis between 1887 and 1910. With the aim of evaluating their historical value, linked to logic and vector calculus, this paper provides a detailed analysis of their treatment, demonstrating the modernity of the analytic tools used. In this paper we also reveal the...
We present here some evidence of the activity of Banach Lwów School of functional analysis in the field of topological algebras. We shall list several results connected with such names as Stanisław Mazur (1905-1981), Maks (Meier) Eidelheit (1910-1943), Stefan Banach (1892-1945) and Andrzej Turowicz (1904-1989) showing that if the war had not interrupted this activity we could expect more interesting results in this direction.