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MCMP – History of PhilosophyGiuseppe Veronese: The Fascination of InfinityPaolo Busotti (San Marino in Storia della Scienza) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (7 May, 2015) titled "Giuseppe Veronese: The Fascination of Infinity". Abstract: Giuseppe Veronese (1854-1917) is one of the most interesting mathematicians lived between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. He gave important contributions to geometry, in particular he developed the non-Archimedean geometries and David Hilbert (1862-1943) mentioned some of Veronese’s results in his Grundlagen der Geometrie. In connection to his geometrical researches, Veronese developed a theory of infinite numbers. In his huge (more than 600 pages) essay Fondamenti di geometria, 1891 (Foundations of...2015-05-121h 08