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 first enrolled in the University of Bologna, 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 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 Integral Equations, Dover, New York, 1985, ; 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, 1952Funzioni ipergeometriche confluenti, Cremonese, Roma, 1954Funzioni ellittiche, Nicola Zanichelli Editore, Bologna, 1937Lezioni di analisi matematica, CEDAM, 1965, Esercizi e complementi di analisi matematica, CEDAM, 1951Lezioni sulle equazioni a derivate parziali, Editrice Gheroni Torino, 1954Equazioni 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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