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RICCATI, JACOPO See also:FRANCESCO, See also:COUNT (1676-1754) , See also:Italian mathematician, was See also:born at See also:Venice on the 8th of May 1676, and died at Treviso on the 15th of See also:April 1754. He studied at the university of See also:Padua, where he graduated in 1696. His favourite pursuits were scientific, and his authority on all questions of See also:practical See also:science was referred to by the See also:senate of Venice. He corresponded with many of the See also:European savants of his See also:day, and contributed largely to the Acta Eruditorum of See also:Leipzig. He was offered the See also:presidency of the See also:academy of science of St See also:Petersburg; but he declined, preferring the leisure and See also:independence of See also:life in See also:Italy. Riccati's name is best known in connexion with his problem called Riccati's See also:equation, published in the Acta Eruditorum, See also:September 1724. A very See also:complete See also:account of this equation and its various transformations was given by J. W. L. See also:Glaisher in the Phil. Trans. (1881).

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death his See also:works were collected by his sons and published (1758) in four volumes. His sons, Vincenzo (17o7-1775) and See also:Giordano (1709-1790), inherited his talents. The former was See also:professor of See also:mathematics at See also:Bologna, and published, among other works, a See also:treatise on the infinitesimal calculus. Giordano was distinguished both as a mathematician and an architect.

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