Circolo Matematico di Palermo

The Circolo Matematico di Palermo is an Italian Mathematical Society. It was founded in 1884 by Giovanni Guccia ( 1855-1914 ) and is the oldest mathematical society in Italy, apart from the general academies.

Guccia was a student of Luigi Cremona, Rome and taught after graduation 1880 in Rome, Palermo, from 1889 as a professor of geometry. He came from a wealthy family and was able to raise the money for his newly founded company, whose magazine Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo. Initially, there were 27 members, from 1887 foreigners were permitted. 1893 founded Guccia a publisher for mathematics books in Palermo, where the journal of the Society appeared. Guccia had with his company for which he is active in leading French and German mathematicians advertised, great success, although Palermo at that time not to mathematical centers in Europe and not in Italy ( including Pisa, Rome ) was one, and in his journal published in the first decade of the 20th century very important works, for example, by Henri Poincaré and Hermann Weyl. Guccia could increase the number of members before the First World War in 1000. The importance of his society faded away after his death in 1914.

The Journal of the Society is now published by Springer Verlag.