Biography

Prof. Paolo Bussotti

Udine University, Italy

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin, Germany

Liceo Scientifico (Scientific High School) Enriques, Livorno, Italy


Email: [email protected]; [email protected]


Research fields

History and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics

Didactics of Mathematics


Qualifications

2013 Member of the Research Centre for the Theory and History of Science, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

1996 Ph.D in History of Science, Unversity of san Marino, San Marino


Publications (Selected)

  1. (In collaboration with Danilo Capecchi and Pasquale Tucci). Proceedings of the SISFA 42nd Annual Conference Perugia, 26-29 September 2022., pp. 141-146. Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2023.

  2. Bussotti, P. (In collaboration with B. Lotti), 2022, Cosmology in the Early Modern Age: A Web of Ideas. Cham: Springer.

  3. Bussotti, P., 2021, The concept of inertia: an interdisciplinary approach. Journal of Baltic Science Education, 20, 1, pp. 4-9.

  4. Bussotti, P. 2021, (In collaboration with S. Canciani). Uso della storia della matematica in un contesto didattico. Le coniche da un punto di vista sintetico (Italian. English translation: “Use of mathematics in an educational context. The conics from a synthetic standpoint”). First part. Nuova Secondaria, 9, pp. 72-77.

  5. Bussotti, P., (In collaboration with R. Pisano), 2020, Historical and Foundational Details on the Method of Infinite Descent: Every Prime Number of the Form 4n+1 is the Sum of Two Squares, Foundations of Science, 25, 3, pp. 671-702.

  6. Bussotti, P., 2019, Michel Chasles’ foundational programme for geometry until the publication of his Aperçu historique, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 73, 3, pp. 261-308.

  7. Bussotti, P., 2019, The concept of form in geometry: some considerations concerning science and mathematics education, Journal of Baltic Science Education, 18, 2, pp. 152-157.

  8. Bussotti, P., 2019, The calculations of areas and volumes using the method of Archimedes: some didactic considerations, Journal of Baltic Science Education, 18, 6, pp. 812-815.

  9. Bussotti, P. (In collaboration with B. Lotti), 2018, The Problem of Circular Motion in René Descartes, Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana, VII series, XIV, I, pp. 76-114.

  10. Bussotti, P., 2015 (In collaboration with R. Pisano), Historical and Epistemological Reflections on the Culture of Machines around the Renaissance: Machines, Machinaries and Perpetual Motion (second part of 49.), Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 3, 1, (Spring 2015), pp. 69-87. DOI: 10.11590/abhps.2015.1.04.

  11. (In collaboration with Raffaele Pisano, Michel Fichant, Agamenon R. E. Oliveira) The Dialogue between Sciences, Philosophy and Engineering. New Historical and Epistemological Insights. Homage to Gottfried W. Leibniz 1646-1716, College Publications, 2017.

  12. Bussotti, P., 2015 (In collaboration with R. Pisano), The Geometrical Foundations of Federigo Enriques’ Gnoseology and Epistemology, in Advances in Historical Studies, 4, pp. 118-145. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ahs.2015.42012.

  13. Bussotti, P., 2015 (In collaboration with R. Pisano), Pisano, R., & Bussotti, P. (2015). Introduction to Advances in Historical Studies Special Issue: Exploring Changes in How the Histories of the Exact Sciences Have Been Written: Interpreting the Dynamics of Change in These Sciences and Interrelations amongst Them—Past Problems, Future Cures?, Advances in Historical Studies, 4, 65-67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ahs.2015.42007.
  14. Bussotti P., 2015 (In collaboration with R. Pisano), Galileo in Padua: architecture, fortifications, mathematics and “practical” science. (Traslation into English of 50.), in Lettera Matematica International, 2, pp. 209-222. DOI 10.1007/s40329-014-0068-7.
  15. Bussotti P., 2015 Preface to the book N. Borgia, Le Quattro operazioni dell’aritmetica pratica, Pisa, ETS. (Italian. Translation: The four operations of practical arithmetic).


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