Gino Fano

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Gino Fano

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

The son of a Garibaldi follower from a wealthy Jewish family studied mathematics in Turin from 1888 under Enrico D'Ovidio , Corrado Segre and Guido Castelnuovo , Segre's assistant. Like his teachers, he specialized in geometry and, after graduating in 1893, went to Felix Klein in Göttingen for further studies , whose Erlangen program he translated into Italian. In 1894 he became assistant to Castelnuovo in Rome. In 1899 he went to Messina as a professor and in 1901 again to Turin. In 1938 he was forced to leave Italy and went to Switzerland. After the war he continued to give lectures in the USA and Italy. The 1911 marriage with Rosetta Cassin resulted in the sons Ugo Fano and Robert Fano , both of whom became well-known scientists in the USA.

Gino Fano is best known as the pioneer of finite geometries ( Fano plane ). Even before David Hilbert , he put geometry on an abstract basis and examined geometric axiom systems and their dependencies on this basis, thus practicing synthetic geometry in the modern sense ( Fano axiom ). He also worked a. a. about algebraic geometry and non-Archimedean geometry. His lectures on Descriptive Geometry from 1914 and those on Projective and Analytical Geometry from 1930 were widely used textbooks.

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SURNAME Fano, Gino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Mantua
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1952
Place of death Verona