When1: 1914
When2: 1930
Who: Gino Fano [Fano, Gino]
What: mathematician
Where: Turin, Italy
works\ Lessons in Descriptive Geometry [1914]; Lessons in Analytical and Projective Geometry [1930: with Alessandro Terracini]
Detail: He lived 1871 to 1952 and invented line and space axiomatic systems, building from points to lines to space. The three complete-quadrilateral diagonal points are never collinear {Fano's axiom}.
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