Eugenio Bertini (8 November 1846 – 24 February 1933) was an Italian

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who introduced

Bertini's theorem In mathematics, the theorem of Bertini is an existence and genericity theorem for smooth connected hyperplane sections for smooth projective varieties over algebraically closed fields, introduced by Eugenio Bertini. This is the simplest and broades ...

. He was born at

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and died at

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Selected works

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References

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Bertini and his two fundamental theorems
by Steven L. Kleiman, on the life and works of Eugenio Bertini {{DEFAULTSORT:Bertini, Eugenio 1846 births 1933 deaths People from Forlì 19th-century Italian mathematicians 20th-century Italian mathematicians University of Pisa alumni Academic staff of the University of Pisa