Cesare Burali-Forti (13 August 1861 – 21 January 1931) was an Italian mathematician, after whom the Burali-Forti paradox is named.

He was a prolific writer, with 180 publications.

[1] Burali-Forti was born in Arezzo, and he obtained his degree from the University of Pisa in 1884.

[2] He was an assistant of Giuseppe Peano in Turin from 1894 to 1896, during which time he discovered a theorem which Bertrand Russell later realised contradicted a previously proved result by Georg Cantor.

The contradiction came to be called the Burali-Forti paradox of Cantorian set theory.