12 Facts About Gabriele Manfredi

Gabriele Manfredi was an Italian mathematician who worked in the field of calculus.

Gabriele Manfredi was the son of Alfonso Manfredi, a notary from Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, and Anna Maria Fiorini.

Gabriele Manfredi became uncomfortable with the study of anatomy, and turned to other subjects before he and Eustachio were introduced to the new subject of differential calculus.

Gabriele Manfredi was one of a group of young men at the University who became interested in the techniques of Cartesian geometry and differential calculus, and who engaged in experiments and astronomical observation.

Eustachio Manfredi became more interested in astronomy, but Gabriele persisted with mathematics, studying the works of Leibniz and of Johann and Jacob Bernoulli on infinitesimal calculus.

Gabriele Manfredi helped Ottoboni build a sundial at Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri and helped in the work of reforming the Gregorian calendar.

Gabriele Manfredi continued to study mathematics, including differential and integral calculus and logarithmic curves.

Gabriele Manfredi made further contributions to the theory of calculus, although his main contribution after 1715 was as a teacher.

In 1708 Gabriele Manfredi began working for the Chancellery of the Senate of Bologna, where he rose to the rank of first chancellor and remained until he retired in 1752.

Gabriele Manfredi married Teresa Del Sole, from the family of the painter Giovanni Gioseffo, and they had three children.

The asteroid 13225 Gabriele Manfredi was named in honor of him and his two brothers, Eustachio and Eraclito.

Gabriele Manfredi's paper described the procedure commonly adopted for integrating first-order homogeneous differential equations.