The 1959 annali di matematica paper of Beniamino Segre and its legacy
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The 1959 annali di matematica paper of Beniamino Segre and its legacy
zbMATH Open document ID: 1030.51007
author: J. W. P. Hirschfeld
published in: Journal of Geometry
publication date: 2003-08-31T00:00:00Z
review text: For the development of finite geometries two of the most influential papers have been ``Le geometrie di Galois'' [Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., IV. Ser. 48, 1-96 (1959; Zbl 0093.33604)] and ``Ovals in a finite projective plane'' [Can. J. Math. 7, 414-416 (1955; Zbl 0065.13402)], both by \textit{B. Segre}. In the paper of 1959 he developed the theoretical foundations of characterizing algebraic varieties by combinatorial properties. The result of the paper of 1955 states that for \(q\) odd, a set of \(q + 1\) points such that no three of them are collinear, is the set of rational points of a conic. This result has been a sort of blueprint for much further research. The article of Hirschfeld under review summarizes the results of the fundamental paper of 1959 and provides an overview about further research of Segre as well as of other researchers.
reviewed by: Johannes Ueberberg
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51E20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51-02
zbMATH DE Number: 1972485
zbMATH Keywords: Segre
zbMATH Keywords: combinatorial geometry
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s00022-003-1693-z
OpenAlex ID: W240106639
DOI: 10.1007/S00022-003-1693-Z
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1972485