death_date nationality birth_date academic_advisors alma_mater death_place influenced doctoral_students image name birth_place field work_institutions known_for doctoral_advisor religion notable_students article_title prizes
8 december 1961 italian 13 april 1879 enrico d'ovidio , federigo enriques , eugenio bertini università di torino , 1900 rome algebraic geometry , several complex variables aldo andreotti , enzo martinelli , guido zappa francesco severi.jpg francesco severi arezzo mathematics università di padova , università di roma , istituto nazionale di di alta matematica -lrb- now istituto nazionale di alta matematica francesco torino severi -rrb- , università di bologna , università algebraic geometry , several complex variables corrado segre catholic luigi fantappiè , gaetano fichera francesco severi
 gold dei xl -lrb- 1906 -rrb- prix bordin -lrb- 1907 -rrb- medal -lrb- jointly with federigo enriques -rrb- guccia medal -lrb- 1908 of -rrb- `` premio reale '' of the accademia nazionale dei the lincei -lrb- 1913 -rrb- accademia nazionale delle scienze detta
francesco severi

francesco severi -lrb- 13 april 1879 -- 8 december 1961 -rrb- was an italian mathematician .
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 has subsequently been shown to be not rigorous according to the then new standards set in particular by oscar zariski and david mumford .
at the personal level , according to he was easily offended , and he was involved in a number of controversies .
he died in rome of cancer .
