Guido Castelnuovo

Guido Castelnuovo
Castelnuovo, c. 1930
Born(1865-08-14)14 August 1865
Died27 April 1952(1952-04-27) (aged 86)
Rome, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Padua
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Rome
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Doctoral advisorGiuseppe Veronese
Doctoral studentsEnrico Bompiani
Federigo Enriques
Gheorghe Mihoc
Oscar Zariski

Guido Castelnuovo (14 August 1865 – 27 April 1952) was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability theory are also significant.