Alberto Collino

Alberto Collino (1947 – 12 September 2020) was an Italian mathematician best known for his contributions in the field of algebraic geometry.[1]

Collino was born in Verzuolo,[1] earned a laurea in mathematics in 1970 from the University of Turin, and completed a Ph.D. in 1974 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] His dissertation, The Rational Equivalence Ring of Symmetric Products of Curves, was supervised by Arthur Mattuck.[3] He spent his professional career at the University of Turin, beginning as an assistant in 1970 and becoming a full professor in 1984.[2]

He died in Milan.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "È morto Alberto Collino, di Verzuolo: fu professore di Matematica dell'Università di Torino. Aveva 73 anni". La Stampa. 12 September 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  3. ^ Alberto Collino at the Mathematics Genealogy Project