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8 november 1952 verona , italy mantua , italy 210px italian mathematics 5 january 1871 fano varieties postulate fano plane fano fibration fano surface fano gino fano.jpg gino fano
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gino fano

gino fano -lrb- 5 january 18718 november 1952 -rrb- was an italian mathematician , best known as the founder of the finite geometry .
he was born in mantua , italy and died in verona , italy .
fano made various contributions on projective and algebraic geometry .
his work in the foundations of geometry predates the similar , but more popular , work of david hilbert by about a decade .
ugo fano and robert fano were his sons .
fano is an early pioneer in the area of finite projective spaces .
in his article on proving the independence of his set of axioms for projective `` n '' - space , among other things , he considered the consequences of having a fourth harmonic point be equal to its conjugate .
this leads to a configuration of seven points and seven lines contained in a finite three-dimensional space with 15 points , 35 lines and 15 planes , in which each line contained only three points .
all the planes in this space consist of seven points and seven lines and are now known as fano planes : fano goes on to describe finite projective spaces of arbitrary dimension and prime orders .
in 1907 gino fano contributed two articles to part iii of klein 's encyclopedia .
the first -lrb- ss .
221 -- 88 -rrb- was a comparison of analytic geometry and synthetic geometry through their historic development in the 19th century .
the second -lrb- ss .
282 -- 388 -rrb- was on continuous groups in geometry and group theory as a unifying principle in geometry .
