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Italian school of algebraic geometry

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Beniamino Segre

Beniamino Segre (1903–1977) was an Italian mathematician who worked in algebraic and combinatorial geometry, known for the Segre classification and the theorem that ovals in finite planes of odd order are conics.

Corrado Segre

Corrado Segre (1863–1924) was an Italian mathematician who, from the chair of higher geometry at the University of Turin, built and led the Italian school of algebraic geometry.

Eugenio Bertini

Eugenio Bertini (1846–1933) was an Italian mathematician, Cremona's first student and a master of the Italian school of algebraic geometry, known for two theorems on linear systems.

Eugenio Giuseppe Togliatti

Eugenio Giuseppe Togliatti (1890–1977) was an Italian algebraic geometer of the Segre school in Turin, known for the Togliatti surface, a quintic with 31 nodes.

Francesco Severi

Francesco Severi (1879–1961) was an Italian mathematician and a key architect of the Italian school of algebraic geometry, known for the Néron–Severi theorem and for founding Rome's Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica.

Gaetano Scorza

Gaetano Scorza (1876–1939) was an Italian mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, abelian functions, Riemann matrices, and algebras, and gave his name to the Scorza curve and Scorza varieties.

Giacomo Albanese

Giacomo Albanese (1890–1947) was an Italian mathematician whose work on algebraic correspondences between surfaces led André Weil to name the Albanese variety after him; he held chairs at Catania, Palermo, Pisa, and São Paulo.

Gino Fano

Gino Fano (1871–1952) was an Italian mathematician born in Mantua, regarded as the founder of finite geometry and known for the Fano plane and Fano varieties central to modern algebraic geometry.

Giovanni Giambelli

Giovanni Giambelli, also known as Giovanni Zeno Giambelli, was an Italian mathematician trained under Corrado Segre in Turin, remembered for the Giambelli determinantal formula in Schubert calculus.

Guido Castelnuovo

Guido Castelnuovo (1865–1952) was an Italian mathematician who, with Federigo Enriques, founded the Italian school's classification of algebraic surfaces, proved the rationality criterion for surfaces, and later led Italian science after fascism.

Michele De Franchis

Michele De Franchis (1875–1946) was an Italian algebraic geometer born in Palermo, known for the de Franchis theorem and for classifying hyperelliptic surfaces with Giuseppe Bagnera.

Ruggiero Torelli

Ruggiero Torelli (1884–1915) was an Italian algebraic geometer, son of the mathematician Gabriele Torelli, whose 1913 papers contain the Torelli theorem: a smooth projective curve is determined by its Jacobian.