Mathematician:Giovanni Benedetto Ceva

Italian mathematician best known for Ceva's Theorem, a result in geometry.

Also rediscovered and published Menelaus's Theorem.

Nationality
Italian

History

 * Born: December 7, 1647, Milan, Italy
 * Died: June 15, 1734, Mantua, Italy

Theorems and Definitions

 * Ceva's Theorem
 * Cevian

Books and Papers

 * 1678: De Lineis Rectis
 * 1682: Opuscula Mathematica
 * 1692: Geometria Motus
 * 1711: De Re Nummeraria
 * 1728: Opus hydrostaticum