Giordano Riccati

Giordano Riccati
Giordano Riccati
Born(1709-02-25)25 February 1709
Castelfranco Veneto, Venetian Republic
Died20 July 1790(1790-07-20) (aged 81)
Treviso, Venetian Republic
Burial placeTreviso Cathedral
Alma materUniversity of Padua
Known forYoung's moduli
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician and physicist
Academic advisors
Notes
He is the son of Jacopo Riccati and the brother of Vincenzo Riccati.

Giordano Riccati or Jordan Riccati (25 February, 1709 – 20 July, 1790) was an Italian mathematician and physicist. The son of the mathematician Jacopo Riccati, he was the first experimental physicist to study material elastic moduli.

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