text: A project to classify mathematical "varieties" named for the founder of finite geometry has been named for this thing.
full_question: A project to classify mathematical "varieties" named for the founder of finite geometry has been named for this thing. That project to classify Fano varieties has been called the [this] "of shapes." In a short story collection named for this thing, the author diverges from nonfiction in order to write of a primitive metallurgist and the populating of a remote island. Components of this thing all title stories in that collection by its author, Primo Levi. The first book in Simon Basher's science series is named for this thing, and it is grouped into eleven chapters, much like the eleven groups of this thing. For ten points, name this thing, the first published appearance of which was in the 1869 journal Zeitschrift für Chemie, which Dmitri Mendeleev constructed in order to identify trends in the chemical elements.
first_sentence: A project to classify mathematical "varieties" named for the founder of finite geometry has been named for this thing.