Ostilio Ricci da Fermo, who lived from 1540 to 1603, was an Italian mathematician, a university professor in Florence at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, founded in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari, and court mathematician to Grand Duke Francesco de' Medici. He is best known as Galileo Galilei's teacher. In 1580 Galileo, enrolled at the University of Pisa by his father to study medicine, attended his lectures and became more interested in mathematics, and Ricci, a former student of Niccolò Tartaglia, taught him the mathematics of Euclid and Archimedes. He considered mathematics not a distinct science but a practical tool for problems in mechanics and engineering. He died in Florence at the age of sixty-two, and a manuscript of about 1590 of his Problemi di Geometria Pratica, on the use of the archimetro, is kept there.
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Ostilio Ricci da Fermo (1540–1603) was an Italian mathematician. == Biography == He was a university professor in Florence at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, founded in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari.
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Ostilio Ricci da Fermo (1540-1603) was an Italian mathematician. == Biography == He was a university professor in Florence at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, founded in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari.
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Ostilio Ricci da Fermo (1540-1603) was an Italian mathematician. == Biography == He was a university professor in Florence at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, founded in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari.
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Ostilio Ricci da Fermo (1540-1603) was an Italian mathematician. == Biography == He was a university professor in Florence at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, founded in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari.
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Ostilio Ricci da Fermo (1540-1603) was an Italian mathematician. == Biography == He was a university professor in Florence at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, founded in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari.
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Ricci is also known for being Galileo Galilei's teacher.
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