Beniamino Segre

Beniamino Segre
Born(1903-02-16)16 February 1903
Turin, Italy
Died2 October 1977(1977-10-02) (aged 74)
Frascati, Italy
Known forSegre's theorem
Segre class
Segre surface
Scientific career
Fields
Thesis Genera della curva doppia per la varieta di S_4 che annulla un determinante simmetrico  (1923)
Doctoral advisorCorrado Segre
Other academic advisorsFrancesco Severi
President of the Accademia nazionale delle scienze
In office
6 May 1974 – 22 September 1977
Preceded byDomenico Marotta
Succeeded byPietro Di Mattei

Beniamino Segre (16 February 1903 – 2 October 1977) was an Italian mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to algebraic geometry and one of the founders of finite geometry.