Cesare Burali-Forti
Born	13 August 1861 Arezzo
Died	21 January 1931 Turin
Known for	Burali-Forti paradox
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics

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 publisher, with 180 publications.^[1]

Biography

Burali-Forti was born in Arezzo, and he obtained his degree from the University of Pisa in 1884.^[2] 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).
• [1] Logica Matematica (Hoepli, Milano, 1894).
• [2] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Complete listing of publications and bibliography, 8 pages.