Corrado Segre

Corrado Segre ( born August 20, 1863 in Saluzzo, † May 18, 1924 in Turin ) was an Italian mathematician who mainly dealt with geometry.

Segre studied under Enrico D' Ovidio in Turin, where he received his doctorate in 1883 quadrics in higher dimensions. In the same year his correspondence began with Felix Klein. In 1888 he took over from his teacher Professor of Geometry at Turin, and kept it for the rest of his career. Segre was next to Luigi Cremona, one of the founders of the Italian geometric school and focused mainly with algebraic geometry. He found a new birational invariant algebraic surfaces ( Zeuthen - Segre invariant ), studied by algebraic curves generated algebraic surfaces and gave a new representation of the Kummer surface. In addition, he was very interested in educational issues.

In 1904 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Heidelberg (La geometria d' oggidi ei suoi legami coll'analisi ).

Among his students Gino Fano, Beppo Levi, Francesco Severi and after graduating Guido Castelnuovo and Federigo Enriques.

The asteroid ( 29910 ) Segre was named after him.

Writings

• Opere, 2 volumes, Rome, Ed.Cremonese 1957 1963
• Segre Multidimensional spaces Enzykl.der Mathem.Wissenschaften 1912