Giovanni Ceva (1 September 1647 to 13 May 1734) was an Italian mathematician widely known for proving Ceva's theorem in elementary geometry. He was born in Milan and educated first at the Brera College, the Jesuit school where his brother Tommaso, also a well-known poet and mathematician, became a distinguished teacher. Giovanni went to the University of Pisa to study mathematics and geometry under Donato Rossetti and Alessandro Marchetti and befriended the mathematician Michelangelo Ricci. Back in Milan he published in 1678 a work on intersecting straight lines and in 1682 a work on oblique forces, pendulums, vessels and rivers. By 1684 he had settled in Mantua as mathematician and engineer at the Gonzaga court, and in 1686 he was designated Professor of Mathematics at the University of Mantua.
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His brother, Tommaso Ceva, was also a well-known poet and mathematician. == Life == Ceva was born in Milan in 1647 and received his first education at the Brera College, the Jesuit school in Milan.
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The theorem is often attributed to Giovanni Ceva, who published it in his 1678 work De lineis rectis.
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