Interplay between local and international journals: the case of Sicily, 1880--1920 (Q1725677)

In the last decades, the history of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo has been carefully investigated. Thanks to the efforts of its founder Giovan Battista Guccia the Circolo and its Rendiconti achieved international renown at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries up to the outbreak of WWI. In the same period of time, a number of mathematical papers were published in Sicily in local journals such as the proceedings (Atti) of several academies. This is an interesting subject not thoroughly studied so far. The present paper aims to fill the gap by providing a detailed account of the authors and the mathematical topics covered in those journals, and by focusing on the interplay between the Rendiconti and the Atti as well.