Francesco Severi (
13 April 1879,
Arezzo,
Italy -
8 December 1961,
Rome) was an
Italian mathematician. He is famous for his contributions to
algebraic geometry. He became the effective leader of the
Italian school of algebraic geometry.Together with
Federigo Enriques, he won the Prix Bordin 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, and the theory of
moduli spaces. He wrote prolifically, and some of his work has subsequently been shown to be inadequate, in investigations in particular by
Oscar Zariski and
David Mumford. At the personal level he was remarkably touchy, and he was involved in a number of controversies.
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