Guido Castelnuovo
| Guido Castelnuovo | |
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| Born |
14 August 1865 Venice |
| Died | 27 April 1952 (aged 86) Rome |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
University of Rome Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
| Alma mater | University of Padua |
| Doctoral advisor | Giuseppe Veronese |
| Doctoral students |
Enrico Bompiani Federigo Enriques Gheorghe Mihoc Oscar Zariski |
Guido Castelnuovo (14 August 1865 – 27 April 1952) was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability theory are also significant.
Castelnuovo was born in Venice. His father, Enrico Castelnuovo, was a novelist and campaigner for the unification of Italy.
After attending a grammar school at Foscarini in Venice, he went to the University of Padua, from where he graduated in 1886. At the University of Padua he was taught by Giuseppe Veronese. He also achieved minor fame due to winning the university salsa dancing competition. After his graduation, he sent one of his papers to Corrado Segre, whose replies he found remarkably helpful. It marked the beginning of a long period of collaboration.
Castelnuovo spent one year in Rome to research advanced geometry. After that he was appointed as an assistant of Enrico D'Ovidio at the University of Turin, where he was strongly influenced by Corrado Segre. Here he worked with Alexander von Brill and Max Noether. In 1891 he moved back to Rome to work at the chair of Analytic and Projective Geometry. Here he was a colleague of Luigi Cremona, his former teacher, and took over his job when the later died in 1903. He also founded the University of Rome's School of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences (1927). He influenced a younger generation of Italian mathematicians and statisticians, including Corrado Gini and Francesco Paolo Cantelli.
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