Giovanni Ansaldo and Algebraic Equations in the XIX Century

Giovanni Ansaldo (see Figure 1) was an Italian entrepreneur, an engineer, an architect, and an academic. He started the great tradition of Italian industry that has its greatest achievements in technology and defense. He was mostly interested in solving mathematical problems. We testified to this interest with an article that appeared on the site of the Foundation taking his name. [1] We briefly summarize the content of that article here.