Luigi Cremona

Luigi Cremona
Born(1830-12-07)7 December 1830
Died10 June 1903(1903-06-10) (aged 72)
Alma materUniversity of Pavia
Known forAlgebraic curve
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Rome
Doctoral advisorFrancesco Brioschi
Doctoral studentsGiuseppe Veronese
President of the Accademia nazionale delle scienze
In office
20 April 1893 – 18 May 1903
Preceded byArcangelo Scacchi
Succeeded byStanislao Cannizzaro

Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe Cremona (7 December 1830 – 10 June 1903) was an Italian mathematician. His life was devoted to the study of geometry and reforming advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. He worked on algebraic curves and algebraic surfaces, particularly through his paper Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane ("Introduction to a geometrical theory of the plane curves"), and was a founder of the Italian school of algebraic geometry.