Background
Fagnano was born in Senigallia.
Fagnano was born in Senigallia.
He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals. where i stands foreign Some mathematicians objected to his methods of analysis founded on the infinitesimal calculus. The most prominent of these were Viviani, De la Hire and Rolle.
Only after his college course he took up the study of mathematics.
Later, without help from any teacher, he mastered mathematics from its foundations. His most important research was published in the Giornale de" Letterati d"Italia.
One of Fagnano"s sons, Giovanni Fagnano, also became a mathematician.
Royal Society.
