Gösta Mittag-Leffler and Vito Volterra. 40 Years of Correspondence

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Part I Introduction to the correspondence

Presentation of the correspondence

Gösta Mittag-Leffler before his first meeting with Volterra

The first meeting between Mittag-Leffler and Volterra

Volterra in Dini’s footsteps

Foundation of the journal Acta Mathematica

From Dini to Betti, 1882–1887

Functional analysis

The second meeting. Guccia’s role and Volterra’s international débuts

1888–1902: Abel’s manuscripts

1891: Sonya Kovalevskaya’s error

1896: Inversion of integrals

1898: Mittag-Leffler’s star and its prehistory

Mittag-Leffler’s engagement for the Nobel Prize in Physics

1906: Volterra’s lectures in Stockholm

1910: Integro-differential equations

WorldWar I and its consequences, 1914–1920

Part II Letters

Letters

Bibliography

Index