* 27 Richard Ricci, Utah handyman suspected of the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart.

The Latinized name " Confucius " is derived from " Kong Fuzi ", which was first coined by 16th-century Jesuit missionaries to China, most probably by Matteo Ricci.

Painting by Sebastiano Ricci, of centaurs at the marriage of Pirithous, king of the Lapithae

An early European account of Taoism was provided by the Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Nicolas Trigault in their De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas ( 1615 ).

While the transcription of the Chinese words used by Ricci was not very consistent, he systematically used Latin p and t for unaspirated Chinese sounds that Pinyin renders as b and d. Accordingly, Ricci called the adherents of Laozi, Tausu (, Pinyin: Daoshi ), which was rendered as Tausa in an early English translation published by Samuel Purchas ( 1625 ).

During this time he learned tensor calculus, a mathematical instrument invented by Gregorio Ricci and Tullio Levi-Civita, and needed to demonstrate the principles of general relativity.

His successors, such as de Nobili, Ricci, and Beschi, attempted to convert the noblemen first as a means to influence more people, while Francis had initially interacted most with the lower classes ( later though, in Japan, Francis changed tack by paying tribute to the Emperor and seeking an audience with him ).

Two of his books, Life of Matteo Ricci, Xitai of the West and Holy images of the Heavenly Lord have been presented to the public by Fondazione Civiltà Bresciana in two separate occasions, on 13 and 25 October 2010.

In these papers he sketched a proof of the Poincaré conjecture and a more general conjecture, Thurston's geometrization conjecture, completing the Ricci flow program outlined earlier by Richard Hamilton.

Perelman's proof uses a modified version of a Ricci flow program developed by Richard Hamilton.

Perelman proved the conjecture by deforming the manifold using something called the Ricci flow ( which behaves similarly to the heat equation that describes the diffusion of heat through an object ).

Major steps in the proof involve showing how manifolds behave when they are deformed by the Ricci flow, examining what sort of singularities develop, determining whether this surgery process can be completed and establishing that the surgery need not be repeated infinitely many times.

The Ricci flow was defined by Richard Hamilton as a way to deform manifolds.

Perelman proved this note goes up as the manifold is deformed by the Ricci flow.

* Geometrization of Three Manifolds via the Ricci Flow, by Mike Anderson ( SUNY Stony Brook ), Notices of the AMS, Vol 51, Number 2, ( written for mathematicians )

His successor Clement XIV tried to placate the enemies of the Jesuits by treating them harshly: he refused to meet the Superior General, Lorenzo Ricci, ordered them not to receive novices, etc.

Tensor calculus was developed around 1890 by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro under the title absolute differential calculus, and originally presented by Ricci in 1892.

It was made accessible to many mathematicians by the publication of Ricci and Tullio Levi-Civita's 1900 classic text Méthodes de calcul différentiel absolu et leurs applications ( Methods of absolute differential calculus and their applications ).

A derivative, Daoshi (, " Daoist priest "), was used already by the Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Nicolas Trigault in their De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas, rendered as Tausu in the original Latin edition ( 1615 ), and Tausa in an early English translation published by Samuel Purchas ( 1625 ).

* Copies are printed of the geographical map of East Asia created by Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit stationed in Ming Dynasty Beijing, China, with Chinese-written labeling and map symbols.

Matteo Ricci was among the very earliest to report on the thoughts of Confucius, and father Prospero Intorcetta wrote about the life and works of Confucius in Latin in 1687.

Instead of trying to approach Christianity through the traditions of the local religion and creating a nativised church as latter fellow Jesuit Matteo Ricci did in China, he was eager for change.

On July 1, 2010, he turned down the prize saying that he believes his contribution in proving the Poincaré conjecture was no greater than that of Hamilton's ( who first suggested using the Ricci flow for the solution ).

Hamilton's program was started in his 1982 paper in which he introduced the Ricci flow on a manifold and showed how to use it to prove some special cases of the Poincaré conjecture.

In some cases Hamilton was able to show that this works ; for example, if the manifold has positive Ricci curvature everywhere he showed that the manifold becomes extinct in finite time under Ricci flow without any other singularities.

The Ricci flow was only defined for smooth differentiable manifolds.

The Matteo Ricci College was founded in 1973 and named after Italian Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci.

* In 2006 a two-episode TV movie was broadcast by Italian state television RAI, dedicated to the magistrate, starring Massimo Dapporto as Falcone and Elena Sofia Ricci as his wife Francesca Morvillo.

By c. 1600, the Jesuits stationed in China, led by Matteo Ricci, were pretty sure that it was, but others were not convinced yet.

Ultimately, the Salt Lake City police signaled that their prime person of interest was Richard Ricci, being held in custody for unrelated reasons.

In 2005 the band was the subject of a documentary called Fearless Freaks, featuring appearances by other artists and celebrities such as Gibby Haynes, The White Stripes, Beck, Christina Ricci, Liz Phair, Juliette Lewis, Steve Burns, Starlight Mints, and Adam Goldberg.

* Scenes from the motion picture After. Life, starring Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson and Justin Long, was filmed on Atlantic Ave. downtown district and on Merrick Rd.

Matteo Ricci started to report on the thoughts of Confucius, and father Prospero Intorcetta published the life and works of Confucius into Latin in 1687.

The proof followed on from the program of Richard Hamilton to use the Ricci flow to attack the problem.

Several stages of the Ricci flow on a two-dimensional manifold.

Perelman showed how to continue past these singularities: very roughly, he cuts the manifold along the singularities, splitting the manifold into several pieces, and then continues with the Ricci flow on each of these pieces.

* Bruce Kleiner ( Yale ) and John W. Lott ( University of Michigan ): " Notes & commentary on Perelman's Ricci flow papers ".

His original proof relied partly on Hamilton's work on the Ricci flow.

Painting by Sebastiano Ricci ( 1659-1734 ) depicting the founder of the Carthusians, Bruno of Cologne ( c1030-1101 ), adoring the Mary ( mother of Jesus ) | Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus | Infant Christ, with Hugh of Lincoln ( 1135-1200 ) looking on in the background.

The famous Roman Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci travelled from Nanjing to Beijing on the canal at the end of 16th century.

Four of his surviving children, Gail, Deana, Ricci and Gina, were on hand to accept on his behalf.

According to the Figurists ( a group of Jesuit missionaries mainly led by Joachim Bouvet into China at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century and based on ideas of Matteo Ricci 1552 to 1610 ), Fu Xi in China's ancient history is actually Enoch.

Following her death, he then married Maria Anna di Ricci, daughter of Count Zanobi di Ricci and Isabelle, Princess Poniatowski, on 4 June 1846 in Firenze.

If a complete n-dimensional Riemannian manifold has nonnegative Ricci curvature and a straight line ( i. e. a geodesic which minimizes distance on each interval ) then it is isometric to a direct product of the real line and a complete ( n-1 )- dimensional Riemannian manifold which has nonnegative Ricci curvature.

The story focuses on three robbers, Angelo Ricci, Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva, who are " of that new and heterogeneous alien stock which lies outside the charmed circle of New England life and traditions ".

Another child was originally cast in the role, but Ricci got him to hit her and told on him ; he lost the role to her as part of his punishment.

The role would help to establish Ricci as an actress known for playing dark, unconventional characters – she went on to play Wednesday again in the film's 1993 sequel, Addams Family Values, which became another box office draw, and more screen time was provided for Ricci's performance as Wednesday.