Nationality Italian Role Mathematician Institutions University of Pavia Education University of Pavia | Alma mater University of Pavia Fields Mathematics Name Francesco Brioschi | |
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Born 22 December 1824
Milan ( 1824-12-22 ) Doctoral students Eugenio Beltrami
Felice Casorati
Luigi Cremona Died December 13, 1897, Milan, Italy Notable students Luigi Cremona, Eugenio Beltrami | ||
Doctoral advisor Antonio Maria Bordoni | ||
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Francesco Brioschi (22 December 1824 – 13 December 1897) was an Italian mathematician.
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Biography
Brioschi was born in Milan in 1824. He graduated from the Collegio Borromeo in 1847.
From 1850 he taught analytical mechanics in the University of Pavia. After the Italian unification in 1861, he was elected deputy in the Parliament of Italy and then appointed twice secretary of the Italian Education Ministry. In 1863 he founded the Polytechnic University of Milan, where he worked until his death, lecturing in hydraulics, analytical mechanics and construction engineering. In 1865 he entered in the Senate of the Kingdom. In 1870 he became a member of the Accademia dei lincei and in 1884 he succeeded Quintino Sella as president of the National Academy of the Lincei. He directed the Il Politecnico (The Polytechnic) review and, between 1867 and 1877, the Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata (Annals of pure and applied mathematics). He died in Milan in 1897.
As mathematician, Brioschi published in Italy various algebraic theories and studied the problem of solving fifth and sixth degree equations using elliptic functions. Brioschi is also remembered as a distinguished teacher: among his students in the University of Pavia there were Eugenio Beltrami, Luigi Cremona and Felice Casorati.