Gino Fano was an Italian mathematician, born in Mantua on 5 January 1871, who died in Verona on 8 November 1952. His work was mainly on projective and algebraic geometry, and he is best known as the founder of finite geometry. He was the eldest of five children of a wealthy Mantua family and entered the Liceo Ginnasio Virgilio in Mantua in 1880. At twelve he was sent to the military college in Milan, and after four years there he returned to Mantua to prepare for university. He entered the University of Turin in 1888, enrolled first in engineering to please his father, and quickly moved to mathematics. After his doctorate he spent 1892 and 1893 as an assistant to D'Ovidio.
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In finite geometry, the Fano plane (named after Gino Fano) is a finite projective plane with the smallest possible number of points and lines: 7 points and 7 lines, with 3 points on every line and 3 lines through every point.
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the Fano plane (named after Gino Fano)
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