Beniamino Segre

Beniamino Segre

Born: 16 Feb 1903 in Turin, Italy
Died: 22 Oct 1977 in Frascati, Italy

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Beniamino Segre's teachers at Turin University included Peano, Fubini and Collado Segre (a not too close relative). After studying in Paris with Cartan he became Severi's assistant in Rome.

In 1931 when he was appointed to the chair at Bologna he already had 40 publications in algebraic geometry, differential geometry, topology and differential equations. However he was of Jewish background and the Fascist Italian Government forced him out and he went to England.

After being interned as an alien in 1940 he was appointed to a teaching post in Manchester with Mordell in 1942. In 1946 he returned to Bologna succeeding Severi in Rome in 1950. His output of research papers on geometry and related topics reached nearly 300 not counting a long list of other publications.

References:

  1. P du Val, Beniamino Segre, Bull. London Math. Soc. 11 (1979), 215-235. 
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