Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti, also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco (26 September 1731 – 9 October 1807) was an Italian mathematician. Best known for posing the Malfatti problem, he was also the first mathematician to “solve” the quintic using a resolvent of sixth degree.
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