Francesco Giacomo Tricomi (5 May 1897 – 21 November 1978) was an

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famous for his studies on mixed type

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s. He was also the author of a book on

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Biography

Tricomi was born in

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. He first enrolled in the

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, where he took chemistry courses. However, Tricomi realized that he preferred physics rather than chemistry; he moved to the University of Naples in 1915. He graduated at the

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in 1918 and later was assistant to

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, first in

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and then in

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. Later he was professor at

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, called by

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, a position he held until his retirement in 1967. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1928 at Bologna and in 1932 in Zurich. From 1943 to 1945 and from 1948 to 1951 at the

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, he collaborated on the manual of special functions for the

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, together with

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and Fritz Oberhettinger. Tricomi was a member of the

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and of the ''Accademia delle Scienze di Torino'' (Turin Academy of Sciences), of which he was also president.

Selected publications

* ''Vorlesungen über Orthogonalreihen'',

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, Berlino, 1955 (traduzione di: ''Serie ortogonali di funzioni'', Istituto Editoriale Gheroni, 1948)
''Integral Equations''
Dover, New York, 1985, ; * ''Equazioni differenziali'', 3rd edition, Boringhieri, 1961 (translated by Elizabeth McHarg into English as ); * Carlo Ferrari e Francesco Giacomo Tricomi, ''Aerodinamica transonica'', Cremonese, Roma, 1962 * ''Funzioni Analitiche'', Nicola Zanichelli Editore, Bologna, 1961 (reprint of 2nd edn.); * ''Lezioni sulle funzioni ipergeometriche confluenti'', Gheroni, Torino, 1952 * ''Funzioni ipergeometriche confluenti'', Cremonese, Roma, 1954 * ''Funzioni ellittiche'', Nicola Zanichelli Editore, Bologna, 1937 * ''Lezioni di analisi matematica'', CEDAM, 1965, * ''Esercizi e complementi di analisi matematica'', CEDAM, 1951 * ''Lezioni sulle equazioni a derivate parziali'', Editrice Gheroni Torino, 1954 * ''Equazioni a derivate parziali'', Edizioni Cremonese, Roma, 1957 * A. Erdélyi, W. Magnus F. Oberhettinger, F. G. Tricomi, ''Higher transcendental functions.'' (3 vols.),

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, New York, 1953 (fa parte del ''

'') * A. Erdélyi, W. Magnus F. Oberhettinger, F. G. Tricomi, ''Tables of integral transforms'',

, New York, 1954 (fa parte del ''

'') *.

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