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Academic position: Full Professor.

Affiliation: European Mathematical Society, Società Matematica Italiana, Società di Storia della Matematica.

Curriculum Vitae

Field of research:

Algebraic Geometry on the complex field (list of pubblication).

  1. Curves: Linear Series and Jacobians, Moduli spaces and their rationality, Set-theoretical Complete Intersections.

  2. Classical Adjunction Theory and projective classification of Surfaces and higher dimensional Varieties.

  3. History of Mathematics of the 19th Century focusing on elliptic and transcendental functions with particular interest in the work of N.H. Abel in these fields.

Teaching (2003-04):

Functions of one complex variable, 1st quarter,

Geometry V, 2nd quarter.

Geometry of real and complex varieties: Riemann surfaces I, 1st quarter, Riemann surfaces II, 2nd quarter.


Students are received on Wednesday and Thursday 10,30-11,30 a.m. or by appointment.


Permanent address:

Dipartimento di Matematica, Via Machiavelli 35, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
Phone: 0532-974037, Fax: 0532-247292, e-mail : cen@dns.unife.it


Gustav Vigeland's Abel monument in the Royal Palace Park

in the Royal Palace Park at
Gustav Vigeland's Abel monument
Oslo (2002)

Other interests: History of modern Mathematics, Painting, Archeology of North and Central America, Italian Maiolica and ceramics.