Francesco Severi (mathematician)
Francesco Severi (born April 13, 1879 in Arezzo , † December 8, 1961 in Rome ) was an Italian mathematician who mainly worked in the field of algebraic geometry .
Life
Severi first studied engineering, then mathematics at the University of Turin with Corrado Segre , where he had to earn money as a tutor as he lost his father at the age of nine and was penniless. He received his doctorate in 1900 with a thesis on the counting calculus of algebraic geometry by Hermann Schubert . He then became the assistant of Enrico D'Ovidio in Turin, Federigo Enriques in Bologna and Eugenio Bertini in Pisa . In 1904 he became professor in Parma and the following year in Padua . During the First World War he served in the artillery. From 1922 he taught at the University of La Sapienza , whose rector he was 1922–1925. In 1929 he got closer and closer to the fascists and became a member of the Italian academy founded by them as a counter-foundation to the Accademia de Lincei (of which he had been a member since 1910). In 1939 he founded the Institute for Higher Mathematics in Rome.
Along with Guido Castelnuovo and Federigo Enriques, Severi is the third “pillar” of the Italian school of algebraic geometry. In 1906 he proved his theorem about the existence of linearly independent bases of algebraic curves on algebraic surfaces .
In addition to mathematics, Severi was also a bank director, farmer and dean of the engineering faculty in Padua. He was known for his argumentative temper. One of his students was Oscar Zariski .
In 1907 he won the Prix Bordin of the Paris Academy , of which he became a member in 1957. In 1932 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich ( La théorie générale des fonctions analytiques de plusieurs variables et la géométrie algébrique ). In 1923 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1939 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 2012 an asteroid was named after him: (30305) Severi .
literature
- van der Waerden: Severi and the foundations of algebraic geometry , Symposia Mathematica Vol. 27, 1987.
- Leonard Roth: Severi , Journal London Mathematical Society, Vol. 28, 1963, p. 282.
- B. Segre: L opera scientifica di Francesco Severi , Rome 1962.
- Severi: Lectures on algebraic geometry - geometry on a curve, Riemann surfaces, Abel integrals , Teubner 1921.
- Severi: Fundamenta per la geometrie sulla varieta algebriche , 1909.
- Severi: Dalla scienza alla fede , 1959 (autobiography).
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Francesco Severi (mathematician). In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Severi's basic sentence for algebraic curves on surfaces: Sulla totalità delle curve algebriche tracciate sopra una superficie algebrica (Italian) , Mathematische Annalen, Volume 62, pp. 194–225, 1906
- Judith Goodstein and Donald Babbitt: A Fresh Look at Francesco Severi (PDF; 4.6 MB), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 59, Issue 8, pp. 1064-1075
Individual evidence
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 1, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 224.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Severi, Francesco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arezzo |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1961 |
| Place of death | Rome |