Francesco Tricomi
Francesco Giacomo Tricomi was an Italian mathematician famous for his studies on mixed type partial differential equations. He was also the author of a book on integral equations.Biography
Tricomi was born in Naples. He graduated at the University of Naples in 1918 and later was assistant to Francesco Severi, first in Padua and then in Rome. Later he was professor at Turin, called by Giuseppe Peano, 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 California Institute of Technology of Pasadena, he collaborated on the manual of special functions for the Bateman manuscript project, together with Arthur Erdélyi, Wilhelm Magnus and Fritz Oberhettinger.
Tricomi was a member of the Accademia nazionale dei Lincei and of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, of which he was also president.Selected publications
- Vorlesungen über Orthogonalreihen, Springer Verlag, Berlino, 1955
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- Equazioni differenziali, 3rd edition, Boringhieri, 1961 ;
- Carlo Ferrari e Francesco Giacomo Tricomi, Aerodinamica transonica, Cremonese, Roma, 1962
- Funzioni Analitiche, Nicola Zanichelli Editore, Bologna, 1961 ;
- 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., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1953
- A. Erdélyi, W. Magnus F. Oberhettinger, F. G. Tricomi, Tables of integral transforms, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1954
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Biographical and general references
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