The Circolo Matematico di Palermo (Mathematical Circle of Palermo) is an Italian mathematical society, founded in

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for its ...

by Sicilian geometer Giovanni B. Guccia in 1884.The Mathematical Circle of Palermo

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. Retrieved 2011-06-19. It began accepting foreign members in 1888, and by the time of Guccia's death in 1914 it had become the foremost international mathematical society, with approximately one thousand members. However, subsequently to that time it declined in influence.

Publications

''Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo'', the journal of the society, was published in a first series from 1885 to 1941 and in a second ongoing series beginning in 1952. Since 2008 it has been published by

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; current editors are C Ciliberto, G. Dal Maso, and Pasquale Vetro. Influential papers published in the ''Rendiconti'' include

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's '' On the Dynamics of the Electron'' (1906). The ''Rendiconti'' also provided the introduction of normal numbers, the original publications of the Plancherel theorem and Carathéodory's theorem,

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's proof of the

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, and one of the appendices to Henri Poincaré's " Analysis Situs"..

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* {{authority control Mathematical societies Scientific societies based in Italy Scientific organizations established in 1884 Education in Palermo Mathematics journals Triannual journals 1884 establishments in Italy