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

Results named for Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti can be found here.

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.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1991: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Geometry ... (previous) ... (next): A Chronological List Of Mathematicians