Giovanni Battista Guccia Pioneer of International Cooperation in Mat
This book examines the life and work of mathematician Giovanni Battista Guccia, founder of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo and its renowned journal, the Rendiconti del Circolo matematico di Palermo. The authors describe how Guccia, an Italian geometer,
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Giovanni Battista Guccia Pioneer of International Cooperation in Mathematics
Giovanni Battista Guccia
Benedetto Bongiorno • Guillermo P. Curbera
Giovanni Battista Guccia Pioneer of International Cooperation in Mathematics
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Benedetto Bongiorno Universit`a degli Studi di Palermo Palermo, Italy
Guillermo P. Curbera Universidad de Sevilla Sevilla, Spain
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Introduction
May 9, 1943, was a day of memorable tragedy for Palermo. At noon, the air alarms announced that a bombardment was about to start. This was not a novelty. After the Allied victory over the Africa Corps of Marshal Erwin Rommel in El Alamein at the end of 1942, the city had been suffering regular bombardments in preparation for the Allied landing in Sicily. The military targets of the bombings were Palermo’s port facilities, the railway and the roads. Targeting had been poor however, as German defenses on the nearby Mount Pellegrino forced the Allied aircraft to fly at high altitudes. It was at this time that the Allied forces adopted the new and devastating military strategy of carpet-bombing. The human cost of the bombardment was relatively low, as many inhabitants had fled to the countryside months before, yet the destruction of Palermo’s housing was significant. Figures indicate that forty percent of Palermo’s housing was destroyed. The at
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