Mathematician:Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti

Mathematician
Italian mathematician best known for posing the Malfatti Problem.

Discovered the Gravitational Property of Lemniscate of Bernoulli.

Nationality
Italian

History

 * Born: 26 September 1731 in Ala, Trento (now Italy)
 * Died: 9 October 1807 in Ferrara (now Italy)

Theorems and Definitions

 * Malfatti Problem
 * Malfatti Circles


 * Gravitational Property of Lemniscate of Bernoulli

Publications

 * 1758: De natura radicum in aequationibus quarti gradus
 * 1759: Epistola altera ad ... Vincentium Riccatum
 * 1770: De aequationibus quadrato-cubicis disquisitio analytica
 * 1781: Della curva cassiniana
 * 1803: Un problema stereotomica
 * 1804: Dubbi proposti al socio Paolo Ruffini sulla sua dimostrazione dell'impossibilità di risolvere le equazioni superiori al quarto grado

Also known as
Also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco.