Gold medal of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL (1906) Prix Bordin (1907) (jointly with Federigo Enriques) Guccia Medal (1908) "Premio reale" of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1913)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Università di Torino, Università di Bologna, Università di Padova, Università di Roma, Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (now Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi)
Francesco Severi (13 April 1879 – 8 December 1961) was an Italian mathematician. He was the chair of the committee on Fields Medal on 1936, at the first delivery.
Severi was born in Arezzo, Italy. He is famous for his contributions to algebraic geometry and the theory of functions of several complex variables. He became the effective leader of the Italian school of algebraic geometry. Together with Federigo Enriques, he won the Bordin prize from the French Academy of Sciences.
He contributed in a major way to birational geometry, the theory of algebraic surfaces, in particular of the curves lying on them, the theory of moduli spaces and the theory of functions of several complex variables. He wrote prolifically, and some of his work (following the intuition-led approach of Federigo Enriques) has subsequently been shown to be not rigorous according to the then new standards set in particular by Oscar Zariski and Andre Weil. Although many of his arguments have since been made rigorous, a significant fraction were not only lacking in rigor but also wrong (in contrast to the work of Enriques, which though not rigorous was almost entirely correct). At the personal level, according to Roth (1963) he was easily offended, and he was involved in a number of controversies. Most notably, he was a staunch supporter of the Italian fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and was included on a committee of academics that was to conduct an anti-semitic purge of all scholarly societies and academic institutions.[1]
^Goodstein, Judith; Babbitt, Donald (2012). "A Fresh Look at Francesco Severi". Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 59 (8): 1064. doi:10.1090/noti881.
FrancescoSeveri (13 April 1879 – 8 December 1961) was an Italian mathematician. He was the chair of the committee on Fields Medal on 1936, at the first...
fell to the group in Rome of Guido Castelnuovo, Federigo Enriques and FrancescoSeveri, who were involved in some of the deepest discoveries, as well as setting...
and FrancescoSeveri", including several research as well as historical papers describing the contributions of Guido Fubini and FrancescoSeveri to various...
The Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica FrancescoSeveri, abbreviated as INdAM, is a government created non-profit research institution whose main purpose...
special case of 2-Scorza varieties are sometimes called Severi varieties, after FrancescoSeveri. Zak showed that k-Scorza varieties are the projective...
University of Rome and by the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica FrancescoSeveri, established in 1913. The Journal started his publications a year after...
some time of the Italian school of algebraic geometry (in particular, FrancescoSeveri, who in this case showed that ρ < ∞). Hodge's methods were the topological...
In algebraic geometry, a Severi variety, named after FrancescoSeveri, may be: a Brauer–Severi variety A Severi variety, a variety contained in a Hilbert...
The 8C 2900A also won the 1936 Spa 24 Hours with Raymond Sommer and FrancescoSeveri. The 8C 2900B began production in 1937. The 2900B design made some...
War I. After spending a year at the University of Padua to work with FrancescoSeveri, he took up in 1920 a professorship in Analysis and Algebra at the...
examples of algebraic curves that strongly influenced the ideas of FrancescoSeveri. He was elected ordinary non-resident member of the Accademia Pontaniana...
possible. The Barth sextic is a counterexample to an incorrect claim by FrancescoSeveri in 1946 that 52 is the maximum number of double points possible. The...
Italian school of algebraic geometry Guido Castelnuovo Federigo Enriques FrancescoSeveri Solomon Lefschetz Oscar Zariski W. V. D. Hodge Sir Michael Atiyah Kunihiko...
Nuvolari and Dreyfus (replacing the injured Farina) and 8C-35 for Brivio and Severi. The Scuderia Torino had two Maseratis, for Trossi and a V8-RI for guest...
included such figures as Gregorio Ricci Curbastro, Giuseppe Veronese, FrancescoSeveri and Tullio Levi Civita. The last years of the nineteenth and the first...
algebraic geometry, studying with Guido Castelnuovo, Federigo Enriques and FrancescoSeveri. Zariski wrote a doctoral dissertation in 1924 on a topic in Galois...
that such surfaces exist for all g ≥ 3 {\displaystyle g\geq 3} , and FrancescoSeveri showed that the moduli space of such surfaces has dimension 19 for...
Frigyes Riesz Nikolai Saltykow [ru] Ludwig Schlesinger Corrado Segre FrancescoSeveri Carlo Severini Maximilian Simon David Eugene Smith Carlo Somigliana...
of mathematical analysis from 1937 to 1939. Antonio Signorini and FrancescoSeveri were two of Fichera's teachers of the Roman period: the first one introduced...
Israel Mathematical Union Italy Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica FrancescoSeveri Unione Matematica Italiana Ivory Coast Société Mathématique de Côte...
Ret 38 = Ernst von Delius Ret 38 = Giovanbattista Guidotti Ret 38 33 FrancescoSeveri Ret 39 = Renato Balestrero Ret 39 = Edoardo Teagno Ret 39 = Antonio...
Nuvolari had an 8C-2300 modified for grand prix use, while Arcangeli, Severi and Caniato drove the less powerful 6-cylinder models. A big field of 39...
Rosa Alfa Romeo 6 - Ret 52 Ferdinando Barbieri Maserati 5 - Ret 54 FrancescoSeveri Alfa Romeo 4 - Ret 8 Luigi Soffietti Maserati 4 - Ret 44 Pietro Ghersi...
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