Gino Fano

Gino Fano - also known as Gino Fano - ( born January 5, 1871 in Mantua, † November 8, 1952 in Verona) was an Italian mathematician.

The son of a Garibaldi - trailer from wealthy Jewish family studied from 1888 in Turin mathematics at Enrico D' Ovidio, Corrado Segre and Guido Castelnuovo, the wizard of Segre. Like his teacher, he specialized in geometry and went to his graduation in 1893 for further studies on Felix Klein in Göttingen, the Erlanger program he translated into Italian. In 1894 he became the assistant of Castelnuovo in Rome. In 1899 he went as professor to Messina and 1901 back to Turin. In 1938 he was forced to leave Italy and went to Switzerland. After the war he continued to hold lectures in the U.S. and Italy. From 1911 closed marriage to Rosetta Cassin 's sons Ugo Fano and Robert Fano emerged that were both well-known scientists in the U.S..

Gino Fano is best known as a pioneer of finite geometries known ( Fano plane ). Even before David Hilbert he set the geometry on an abstract basis and examined on this basis geometric axiom systems and their dependencies, ie operational synthetic geometry in the modern sense ( Fano Axiom ). He worked also, inter alia, on algebraic geometry and non- Archimedean geometry. His lectures on descriptive geometry from 1914 and on projective and analytic geometry of 1930 were widespread textbooks.

Works

  • Gino Fano since: textbook of general arithmetic. 1, the various theories of number fields, Zurich; Leipzig: Speidel & Root, 1925
  • Gino Fano as: tasks of descriptive geometry: For the students of technical universities, 3rd edition, Zurich. E. Root, 1949
  • Gino Fano: Lezioni di geometria descrittiva / tenute dal prof. Gino Fano, raccolte dagli studenti Roberto Ballarati e Franco Brindisi in Campo universitario italiano. Università di Lausanne. lezioni; 37, Lausanne: Fonds européen de secours aux étudiants, 1944
  • Gino Fano: Lezioni di geometria analitica in Campo universitario italiano. Università di Lausanne. lezioni; 6, Lausanne, fund européen de secours aux étudiants. Ufficio dispense, 1944
  • Fano Continuous geometric groups Enzykl.Mathem.Wiss.1907
  • Fano contrast between synthetic and analytic geometry in historical development in the 19th century, Enzykl.Mathem.Wiss. 1907
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