Gino Fano
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| Born | 5 January 1871 Mantua, Italy |
| Died | 8 November 1952 (aged 81) Verona, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
Gino Fano (5 January 1871 – 8 November 1952) was an Italian mathematician. He was born in Mantua, Italy and died in Verona, Italy.
Fano worked on projective and algebraic geometry; the Fano plane, Fano fibration, Fano surface, and Fano varieties are named for him.
Ugo Fano and Robert Fano were his sons.
[edit] References
- Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (2000). The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870–1940. Princeton University Press.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Gino Fano", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fano.html.
- Gino Fano at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
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