Giacomo Bellacchi (18381924) was an Italian
mathematician.
After graduating from
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, he became a teacher at a military school and at the Tuscan Technical Institute, where one of his pupils was
Vito Volterra.
Over his career, he carried out research both in
geometry and
algebra. He wrote many works, among which the most prominent is probably ''Introduzione storica alla teoria delle funzioni ellittiche (Historical Introduction to
Elliptic Function
In the mathematical field of complex analysis, elliptic functions are a special kind of meromorphic functions, that satisfy two periodicity conditions. They are named elliptic functions because they come from elliptic integrals. Originally those in ...
Theory)'', which became well known and was used worldwide. He also wrote many university textbooks.
The library of the ''Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica'' in
Florence has named after him its precious collection of math books and works.
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External links
Digitized version of ''Introduzione storica alla teoria delle funzioni ellittiche''(Cornell University – Historical library)
Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica di Firenze
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1838 births
1924 deaths
People from Altamura
Italian mathematicians