Jacopo Riccati
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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.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Jacopo Riccati”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
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