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Fano was an early writer in the area of finite projective spaces. In his article on proving the independence of his set of axioms for
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be equal to its conjugate. This leads to a configuration of seven points and seven lines contained in a
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Fano went on to describe finite projective spaces of arbitrary dimension and prime orders.
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All the planes in this space consist of seven points and seven lines and are now known as
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through their historic development in the 19th century. The second (SS. 282–388) was on
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with 15 points, 35 lines and 15 planes, in which each line contained only three points.
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Encyklopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften mit Einschluss ihrer Anwendungen
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Gino Fano came from a wealthy Jewish family in Mantua, Italy.
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In 1907 Gino Fano contributed two articles to Part III of
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Mantua
Italy
Verona
University of Turin
Fano plane
Fano fibration
Fano surface
Fano varieties
Italian
mathematician
finite geometry
Jewish
Mantua
Italy
Verona
projective
algebraic geometry
foundations of geometry
David Hilbert
physicist
Ugo Fano
Robert Fano
Giulio Racah
projective n-space
fourth harmonic point
finite three-dimensional space
Fano planes
Fano Plane (7 points and 7 lines)
Klein's encyclopedia

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