Veronese

Giuseppe Veronese

Born: 7 May 1854 in Chioggia, Italy
Died: 17 July 1917 in Padua, Italy

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Veronese inspired the study of geometry in higher dimensions.

In 1880 Veronese described an n-dimensional projective geometry, showing that simplifications could be obtained in passing to higher dimensions. He illustrated the fact that difficulties arose when a simple surface in high dimension was projected onto 3-space.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. C Segre, Commemorazione del socio nazionale Giuseppe Veronese, Atti dell'Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti 26 (1917), 249-258.
  3. C F Manara, Giuseppe Veronese ed il problema del continuo geometrico, Rendiconti del Seminario matematico e fisico di Milano 56 (1988), 99-111. 
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