Cesare Burali-Forti
Cesare Burali-Forti was an Italian mathematician, after whom the Burali-Forti paradox is named.Biography
Burali-Forti was born in Arezzo, and 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
