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Vincenzo Riccati (1707–1775)
Born (1707-01-11)11 January 1707
Castelfranco Veneto, Venetian Republic
Died 17 January 1775(1775-01-17) (aged 68)
Nationality Italian
Known for Hyperbolic functions
Scientific career
Fields Mathematician and physicist
Institutions College of San Francesco Saverio, Bologna
Pontifical Gregorian University
Academic advisors Jacopo Riccati
Notable students Gian Francesco Malfatti
Notes
He is the son of Jacopo Riccati and the brother of Giordano Riccati.

Vincenzo Riccati (Castelfranco Veneto, 11 January 1707 – Treviso, 17 January 1775) was a Venetian Catholic priest, mathematician, and physicist.

Life

Vincenzo Riccati was the brother of Giordano Riccati, and the second son of Jacopo Riccati. He entered the Society of Jesus on December 20, 1726. He taught belles lettres in the colleges of the Order in Piacenza (1728), Padua (1729), and Parma (1734). He then went to Rome to study theology. In 1739 he was assigned to the Collegio di San Francesco Saverio of Bologna, where he taught mathematics for thirty years. He was among the first members of the Italian National Academy of Sciences.

Riccati's main research continued the work of his father in mathematical analysis, especially in the fields of the differential equations and physics.

In 1757 he published the first volume of Opusculorum ad res physicas et mathematicas pertinentium introducing hyperbolic functions, the second volume appearing in 1762. In collaboration with Hieronymo Saldino he contributed to Institutiones Analyticae, volume one in 1765, volume two in 1767.

Riccati - De usu motus tractorii in constructione aequationum differentialium, 1752 - 1373559
De usu motus tractorii in constructione aequationum differentialium (1752)

Works

  • Dialogo, dove ne' congressi di più giornate delle forze vive e dell'azioni delle forze morte si tien discorso, Bologna, 1749

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Vincenzo Riccati para niños

  • Girolamo Saladini
  • List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
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