Alberto Collino

{{Short description|Italian mathematician (1947–2020)}}

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Alberto Collino (1947 – 12 September 2020) was an Italian mathematician best known for his contributions in the field of algebraic geometry.{{cite news|title=È morto Alberto Collino, di Verzuolo: fu professore di Matematica dell’Università di Torino. Aveva 73 anni|newspaper=La Stampa|date=12 September 2020}}

Collino was born in Verzuolo, 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.campusnet.unito.it/docenti/att/acollino.cv.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|accessdate=2020-09-13}} His dissertation, The Rational Equivalence Ring of Symmetric Products of Curves, was supervised by Arthur Mattuck.{{MathGenealogy |id=62628}} He spent his professional career at the University of Turin, beginning as an assistant in 1970 and becoming a full professor in 1984.

He died in Milan.