Ms. Tricomi (3rd from right) accompanied Francesco Tricomi at the
ICM 1932.
Tricomi was born in
Naples. He first enrolled in the
University of Bologna, where he took chemistry courses. However, Tricomi realized that he preferred physics rather than chemistry; he moved to the University of Naples in 1915.[2] He graduated at the
University of Naples in 1918 and later was assistant to
Francesco Severi, first in
Padua and then in
Rome. Later he was professor at
Turin, called by
Giuseppe Peano, a position he held until his retirement in 1967.
Tricomi was a member of the
Accademia nazionale dei Lincei and of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (Turin Academy of Sciences), of which he was also president.
Selected publications
Vorlesungen über Orthogonalreihen,
Springer Verlag, Berlino, 1955 (traduzione di: Serie ortogonali di funzioni, Istituto Editoriale Gheroni, 1948)[4]
Integral Equations, Dover, New York, 1985,
ISBN0486648281; 1st edition. 1957.[5]
Equazioni differenziali, 3rd edition, Boringhieri, 1961 (translated by
Elizabeth McHarg into English as Differential Equations. NY: Hafner. 1961.); 1st edition. Torino: G. Einaudi. 1948.[6]2nd edition. 1953.[7]
Carlo Ferrari[8] e Francesco Giacomo Tricomi, Aerodinamica transonica, Cremonese, Roma, 1962
ISBN8870833658
Funzioni Analitiche, Nicola Zanichelli Editore, Bologna, 1961 (reprint of 2nd edn.); 1st edition. 1937.[9]2nd edition. 1946.[10]
Lezioni sulle funzioni ipergeometriche confluenti, Gheroni, Torino, 1952[11]
Funzioni ipergeometriche confluenti, Cremonese, Roma, 1954[12]
Funzioni ellittiche, Nicola Zanichelli Editore, Bologna, 1937[9]
Lezioni di analisi matematica, CEDAM, 1965,
ISBN8813319509
Esercizi e complementi di analisi matematica, CEDAM, 1951
Lezioni sulle equazioni a derivate parziali, Editrice Gheroni Torino, 1954[13]
Equazioni a derivate parziali, Edizioni Cremonese, Roma, 1957[14]
A. Erdélyi, W. Magnus F. Oberhettinger, F. G. Tricomi, Higher transcendental functions. (3 vols.),
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1953 (fa parte del Bateman manuscript project)
A. Erdélyi, W. Magnus F. Oberhettinger, F. G. Tricomi, Tables of integral transforms,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1954 (fa parte del Bateman manuscript project)
^Tricomi, F. (1929).
"Sull'equazione y ∂2z/∂x2 + ∂2z/∂y2 = 0."(PDF). In: Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici: Bologna del 3 al 10 de settembre di 1928. Vol. 3. pp. 27–30. Archived from
the original(PDF) on 2017-12-05. Retrieved 2017-12-04.