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Gino Fano

1871 - 1952

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Gino Fano (5 January 1871 – 8 November 1952) was an Italian mathematician, best known as the founder of finite geometry. He was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy. Fano made various contributions on projective and algebraic geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gino Fano has received more than 50,068 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Gino Fano is the 571st most popular mathematician (down from 554th in 2019), the 2,989th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,728th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gino Fano ranks 571 out of 823. Before him are Beppo Levi, Benjamin Peirce, Karol Borsuk, Jean Frédéric Frenet, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, and William Burnside. After him are Hillel Furstenberg, Nilakantha Somayaji, Edmund Gunter, Pál Turán, Ilia Vekua, and Jacques Pelletier du Mans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Gino Fano ranks 101. Before him are Igor Grabar, Daniel Alomía Robles, Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Fyodor Dan, Alwin Berger, and Robert Hugh Benson. After him are Gyula Károlyi, Lou Tseng-Tsiang, José Enrique Rodó, Nils Edén, Fritz Schaudinn, and Henryk Arctowski. Among people deceased in 1952, Gino Fano ranks 104. Before him are Karel Lamač, David Bergelson, Arturo Rawson, Alberto Hurtado, John Garfield, and Petros Persakis. After him are Fletcher Henderson, Sergey Merkurov, Vladimir Albitsky, Solomon Lozovsky, Yitzhak Sadeh, and Artur Kapp.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gino Fano ranks 2,989 out of 4,668. Before him are Marcantonio Giustinian (1619), Giuseppe Bottai (1895), Fortunato Baldelli (1935), Alessandro Grandi (1586), Dante Ferretti (1943), and Tommaso Tittoni (1855). After him are Bruno Giacomelli (1952), Luigi Alamanni (1495), Nilde Iotti (1920), Domenico Morelli (1826), Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro (1948), and Ugo Betti (1892).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Gino Fano ranks 46. Before him are Campanus of Novara (1210), Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728), Ulisse Dini (1845), Pietro Mengoli (1626), Giovanni Battista Zupi (1589), and Beppo Levi (1875). After him are Luigi Bianchi (1856), Plato Tiburtinus (1110), Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (1781), Federico Commandino (1509), Ennio de Giorgi (1928), and Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825).

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