Giuseppe Veronese

Giuseppe Veronese ( born May 7, 1854 in Chioggia, near Venice, † July 17, 1917 in Padua ) was an Italian mathematician.

Veronese was the son of poor parents - born in the fishing village of Chioggia and was able to visit the Polytechnic in Zurich, where he studied engineering and mathematics only thanks to the financial help of a patron - his father was a painter. Still in Zurich he corresponded with Luigi Cremona in Rome where he continued his studies. Even before his graduation, he published a paper on Pascal's hexagram and in 1876 assistant for analytical geometry in Rome. 1880-1881 he was with Felix Klein in Leipzig in 1881 and won a competition for the Chair of algebraic geometry in Padua, which became vacant after the death of his predecessor. He dealt with projective geometry in higher dimensions and developed the non- Archimedean geometry ( 1890), in which the Archimedean axiom does not apply. He treated this well in its fundamentals of geometry. In ensued a dispute with Giuseppe Peano, who questioned the consistency of geometry and their lack of rigor criticized. However, the investigation of the axiomatic foundations of geometry by David Hilbert justify Veronese. Like other Italian mathematician, he also went into politics, first in local politics, from 1904 he was a senator. Among his students Guido Castelnuovo and Tullio Levi -Civita. In 1908 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rome (La geometria non archived medea ).

He also wrote several geometry textbooks for schools dealing with the Euclidean curriculum with greater rigor.