The Problem of Malfatti: Two Centuries of Debate

Gianfrancesco Malfatti was a brilliant Italian mathematician born in 1731 in a small village in the Italian Alps, Ala., near Trento. He first studied at a Jesuit school in Verona, then at the University of Bologna. Malfatti was one of the founders of the Department of mathematics of the Unviersity o...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Mathematical intelligencer 2011-03, Vol.33 (1), p.72-76
Hauptverfasser:	Andreatta, Marco, Bezdek, András, Boroński, Jan P.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Centuries Debates Malfatti, Gianfrancesco Mathematical and Computational Engineering Mathematical and Computational Physics Mathematical Methods in Physics Mathematical problems Mathematicians Mathematics Mathematics and Statistics Numerical and Computational Physics Simulation Theoretical
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Zusammenfassung:	Gianfrancesco Malfatti was a brilliant Italian mathematician born in 1731 in a small village in the Italian Alps, Ala., near Trento. He first studied at a Jesuit school in Verona, then at the University of Bologna. Malfatti was one of the founders of the Department of mathematics of the Unviersity of Ferrara. Here, Andreatta, Bezdek, and Boronski discuss the mathematical problem inspired by Malfatti--a mathematical concern under debate for two centuries already.
ISSN:	0343-6993 1866-7414
DOI:	10.1007/s00283-010-9154-7