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- Mathematician Émile Léonard Mathieu, 1835
- Mathematician Gino Fano, 1871
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He is most famous for his work in group theory and mathematical physics. He has given his name to the Mathieu functions, Mathieu groups and Mathieu transformation. He authored a treatise of mathematical physics in 6 volumes. Volume 1 is an exposition of the techniques to solve the differential equations of mathematical physics, and contains an account of the applications of Mathieu functions to electrostatics. Volume 2 deals with capillarity. Volumes 3 and 4 with electrostatics and magnetostatics. Volume 5 deals with electrodynamics, and volume 6 with elasticity. The asteroid 27947 Emilemathieu was named in his honor.
Gino Fano (5 January 1871 – 8 November 1952) was an Italian mathematician. He was born in Mantua, Italy and died in Verona, Italy.
Fano worked on projective and algebraic geometry; the Fano plane, Fano fibration, Fano surface and Fano varieties are named for him.
Ugo Fano and Robert Fano were his sons.
In 1907 Gino Fano contributed two articles to Part III of Klein's encyclopedia. The first was a comparison of analytic geometry and synthetic geometry through their historic development in the 19th century. The second was on continuous groups in geometry and group theory as a unifying principle in geometry.