Biografia paolo ruffini matematico
Paolo ruffini mathematician.
Paolo Ruffini
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Biografia paolo ruffini matematico
As a young child Paolo was [4]:-
of a mystical temperament and appeared to be destined for the priesthoodThe family moved to Reggio, near Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, when Paolo was a teenager.
He entered the University of Modena in where he studied mathematics, medicine, philosophy and literature. Among his teachers of mathematics at Modena were Luigi Fantini, who taught Ruffini geometry, and Paolo Cassiani, who taught him calculus.
The Este family ruled Modena and, in , Cassiani was appointed as a councillor for the Este estates. Cassiani's course at Modena on the foundations of analysis was taken over by Ruffini in although he was still a student at this time.
Paolo ruffini biography
On 9 June Ruffini graduated with a degree in philosophy, medicine and surgery. Soon after this he graduated with a mathematics degree.
Ruffini must have made a good job of the foundations of analys