Arturo Reghini is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Arturo Reghini as Italian mathematician and philosopher (1878-1946).
Arturo Reghini was born at Florence in 1878. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the foundations of mathematics were under open attack, and set theory and logic became urgent questions.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from Italy matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Arturo Reghini died in 1946, aged 68. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
