Jump to content

Jacopo Riccati

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 201.70.77.206 (talk) at 23:19, 22 March 2008. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Jacopo Francesco Riccati (28 May 1676 - 15 April 1754) was an Italian mathematician, born in Venice. He is now remembered for the Riccati equation. He died in Treviso in 1754.

Jacopo's son, Vincent Riccati, a Jesuit, followed his father's footsteps and pioneered the development of hyperbolic functions.

A second son, Giordano Riccati was the first to measure the ratio of Young's moduli of metals - predating the better known Thomas Young by 25 years.

  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Jacopo Riccati", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
Stub icon

This article about a mathematician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacopo_Riccati&oldid=200177071"