Giuseppe Suzzi

Giuseppe Suzzi was an Italian mathematician and abbot, born in 1701 in Ragogna in the province of Udine and dead on 5 January 1764. He studied in Udine and later in Murano and Venice, in the seminary of the Somaschi Fathers, where he was a notable student of Giovanni Francesco Crivelli. In 1722 he moved to the University of Padua, where he also took private lessons from Jacopo Riccati together with Lodovico da Riva; these lessons were published in 1761 in a posthumous book by Riccati that includes Suzzi solutions to many problems. Suzzi published many books on mathematical analysis, among them Disquisitiones mathematicae of 1725 and a general solution of equations of the third degree in 1747. In 1744 he became professor of natural history at Padua and in 1750 a member of the Accademia dei Ricovrati. He retired in 1762 and died in Venice.