Francesco Brioschi was an Italian mathematician. Brioschi was born in Milan in 1824. From 1850 he taught analytical mechanics in the University of Pavia. After the Italian unification in 1861, he was elected depute in the Parliament of Italy and then appointed twice secretary of the Education Minister. In 1863 he founded the Politecnico di Milano, where he worked until death; here, he taught mainly hydraulics, … Wikipedia
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