The Poincaré-Volterra theorem: A significant event in the history of the theory of analytic functions (Q796509)

The authors reconstruct the history of the Poincaré-Volterra theorem (the set of values of an analytic function at a given point is at most countable) from correspondence of Volterra, Vivanti, and Cantor, some of which is reproduced in an appendix. The history shows that these mathematicians were interested in finding a proof along the lines of Weierstrass' approach to analytic functions because the possibility of constructing the Riemann surface of an arbitrary analytic function was not regarded as completely proved at the time.