Giovanni Ricci (mathematician)

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Giovanni Ricci (in the background near the palace door on the stairs) at the International Symposium on Algebraic Geometry in Rome in 1965. In the foreground, from left: Enrico Bompiani speaks with Giovanni Battista Rizza and Vittorio Dalla Volta
The mathematics library at the University of Milan is named after Giovanni Ricci.

Giovanni Ricci (born August 17, 1904 in Florence , † September 9, 1973 in Milan ) was an Italian mathematician.

Ricci studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa with the Laurea degree under Luigi Bianchi in 1925 with a dissertation on differential geometry. After two years as an assistant in Rome, he returned to Pisa as a professor at the Scuola Normale. In 1936 he became professor of analysis in Milan.

He worked on additive number theory such as the Goldbach conjecture , on the distribution of prime numbers and the seventh Hilbert problem (transcendent numbers). In addition to number theory, he also dealt with function theory.

In 1957 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei . Enrico Bombieri is one of his doctoral students . Ricci was president of the Unione Matematica Italiana .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giovanni Ricci at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Ricci, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1973
Place of death Milan