Giovanni Ceva had received his education at…

Giovanni Ceva had received his education at a Jesuit college in Milan.

Later in his life, he had studied at the University of Pisa, where he subsequently became a professor.

In 1686, however, he had been designated as the Professor of Mathematics at the University of Mantua and will work here for the rest of his long life, throughout most of which he studies geometry.

He had in 1678 published a now famous theorem on synthetic geometry in a triangle called Ceva’s Theorem.

The theorem states that if three line segments are drawn from the vertices of a triangle to the opposite sides, then the three line segments are concurrent if, and only if, the product of the ratios of the newly created line segments on each side of the triangle is equal to one.

He had published this new theorem in De lineis rectis.

Ceva had not only published his own theorem, but he had also rediscovered and published Menelaus's theorem.

He had published as well Opuscula mathematica in 1682 and Geometria Motus in 1692.

In Geometria Motus, he had anticipated the infinitesimal calculus.

Finally, Ceva writes De Re Nummeraria in 1711, which is one of the first books in mathematical economics.