Machiavelli's literary executor, Giuliano de ' Ricci, also reported having seen that Machiavelli, his grandfather, made a comedy in the style of Aristophanes which included living Florentines as characters, and to be titled Le Maschere.

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 ).

Their children were Dean Paul ( November 17, 1951-March 21, 1987 ; plane crash ), Ricci James ( born 1953 ) and Gina Caroline ( born 1956 ), whose marriage made Dean the father-in-law of The Beach Boys ' Carl Wilson.

Ricci made a cameo appearance on Beck's successful album Guero, providing vocals on " Hell Yes ".

In February 2006 Ricci made a guest appearance as a paramedic in the ABC drama Grey's Anatomy, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

The novel was turned into several films, including Bel Ami ( 1939 ), The Private Affairs of Bel Ami ( 1949 ), starring George Sanders and itself the first version in English, a 1971 TV series a 1976 Swedish pornographic version, starring Harry Reems and also known as For Men Only, which had the tagline " Harry Reems ' Last Adult Film ", a 2005 French / Belgian version made for television, starring Sagamore Stévenin, and the 2012 version, Bel Ami, with Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Christina Ricci and Holliday Grainger.

He also made appearances on many albums, including John Entwistle's Whistle Rymes in 1972, as lead guitarist playing alongside Peter Frampton on " Apron Strings " and " I Feel Better "; and on Roy Harper's album, Bullinamingvase, and Ricci Martin's album, Bleached, both in 1977.

Aside from performing over 6, 000 concerts in 65 countries during his 70-year solo career, Ricci also made over 500 recordings, on every major label.

* The band Bob Ricci made a parody of this song, based on the show Beverly Hills, 90210

There was also controversy over remarks made by Raphaelle Ricci following the eviction of fan favourite Nicolas Charvillat, suggesting that her fellow " profs " had decided to evict him before he even sang a note.

Strepponi made her professional opera début in December 1834 as Adria in Luigi Ricci ’ s Chiara di Rosembergh at the Teatro Orfeo.

Ricci claims he was joking in that interview, saying that he made the remark after Novella pointed out the similarities between Big Red and Gabibbo.

Within a few months he travelled with the Italian Alessandro Ricci to Sinai: the party left Cairo and followed the peninsula's eastern coast, passing through Ayun Musa ( a candidate for the " Wells of Moses "), Wadi Gharandel and Khazne Firaoun, to arrive at Maghara, where they made copies of the hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Giulio Cordara, a close friend of Ricci made probably the best assessment: I would have judged him most competent to guide the Society on a quiet and tranquil sea.

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.

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.

Unlike the heat flow, the Ricci flow could run into singularities and stop functioning.

Other child actors who have continued their careers into adulthood include Christina Ricci, Macaulay Culkin and Jake Gyllenhaal.

He transformed Tori Amos into Mary, Queen of Scots, Celine Dion into Maria Callas, Lisa Marie Presley into Marilyn Monroe, Christina Ricci into Édith Piaf, Hilary Swank into Raquel Welch, Winona Ryder into Elizabeth Taylor, Tionne " T-Boz " Watkins into Josephine Baker and Martha Stewart into Veronica Lake, among others.

* 1584-Matteo Ricci and a Chinese scholar translate a catechism into Chinese under the title Tian Zhu Shi Lu （ 天主實録 ） ( A True Account of God )

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.

As a Catholic missionary, Ricci strongly criticized the " recondite science " of geomancy along with astrology as yet another superstitio absurdissima of the heathens: " What could be more absurd than their imagining that the safety of a family, honors, and their entire existence must depend upon such trifles as a door being opened from one side or another, as rain falling into a courtyard from the right or from the left, a window opened here or there, or one roof being higher than another?

Although Ricci initially reacted by putting her hands over her mouth in surprise, she quickly fell back into character.

The book was adapted into an independent film of the same name starring Christina Ricci and released in 2001.

However this minimal decomposition is not necessarily the one produced by Ricci flow ; if fact, the Ricci flow can cut up a manifold into geometric pieces in many inequivalent ways, depending on the choice of initial metric.

Roughly speaking, the Ricci flow contracts positive curvature regions and expands negative curvature regions, so it should kill off the pieces of the manifold with the " positive curvature " geometries S < sup > 3 </ sup > and S < sup > 2 </ sup > × R, while what is left at large times should have a thick-thin decomposition into a " thick " piece with hyperbolic geometry and a " thin " graph manifold.

In August 2006, Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal for " his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow.

Given a Riemannian manifold with metric tensor, we can compute the Ricci tensor, which collects averages of sectional curvatures into a kind of " trace " of the Riemann curvature tensor.

The Ricci flow ( named after Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro ) was introduced by Richard Hamilton in 1981 in order to gain insight into the geometrization conjecture of William Thurston, which concerns the topological classification of three-dimensional smooth manifolds.

) Indeed, a triumph of nineteenth century geometry was the proof of the uniformization theorem, the analogous topological classification of smooth two-manifolds, where Hamilton showed that the Ricci flow does indeed evolve a negatively curved two-manifold into a two-dimensional multi-holed torus which is locally isometric to the hyperbolic plane.

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 ).

The Ricci tensor itself is related to the more general Riemann curvature tensor as

Jason Ricci and Carlos del Junco are starting to integrate it in a more blues or rock oriented music.

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.

In the Kingdom of Naples difficulties necessitating certain concessions in respect of feudal homage were raised by the liberal minister Tanucci, and more serious disagreements arose with Leopold II ( 1790 – 92 ), later emperor, and Scipione de ' Ricci, bishop of Pistoia and Prato, upon the questions of reform in Tuscany ; but Pius VI did not think fit to condemn the decrees of the synod of Pistoia ( 1786 ) till nearly eight years had elapsed.

While continuing to paint religious and mythological works, he increasingly devoted his output to landscapes, his style at first taking after that of Alessandro Magnasco, and more lastingly, of Marco Ricci.

Two more generalizations of curvature are the scalar curvature and Ricci curvature.

Immediately after this commission, Ghirlandaio was asked to renew the frescoes in the choir of Santa Maria Novella, which formed the chape l of the Ricci family, but the Tornabuoni and Tornaquinci families, who were much more prominent than the Ricci, undertook the cost of the restoration, with certain contractualconditions.

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.

In 1997 Ricci began to appear in more adult roles, beginning with her role as the troubled, sexually curious Wendy Hood in Ang Lee's critically acclaimed The Ice Storm.

In this more general situation, the Ricci tensor is symmetric if and only if there exist locally a parallel volume form for the connection.

* If the manifold is Euclidean space, or more generally Ricci-flat, then Ricci flow leaves the metric unchanged.

Then, by placing an arbitrary metric g on a given smooth manifold M and evolving the metric by the Ricci flow, the metric should approach a particularly nice metric, which might constitute a canonical form for M. Suitable canonical forms had already been identified by Thurston ; the possibilities, called Thurston model geometries, include the three-sphere S < sup > 3 </ sup >, three-dimensional Euclidean space E < sup > 3 </ sup >, three-dimensional hyperbolic space H < sup > 3 </ sup >, which are homogeneous and isotropic, and five slightly more exotic Riemannian manifolds, which are homogeneous but not isotropic.

) This doesn't prove the full geometrization conjecture because the most difficult case turns out to concern manifolds with negative Ricci curvature and more specifically those with negative sectional curvature.

The Ricci flow does not preserve volume, so to be more careful in applying the Ricci flow to uniformization and geometrization one needs to normalize the Ricci flow to obtain a flow which preserves volume.

To see why the evolution equation defining the Ricci flow is indeed a kind of nonlinear diffusion equation, we can consider the special case of ( real ) two-manifolds in more detail.

This computation suggests that, just as ( according to the heat equation ) an irregular temperature distribution in a hot plate tends to become more homogeneous over time, so too ( according to the Ricci flow ) an almost flat Riemannian manifold will tend to flatten out the same way that heat can be carried off " to infinity " in an infinite flat plate.

Mr. Baker has been commissioned by more than 500 individuals and ensembles, including Josef Gingold, Ruggerio Ricci, Janos Starker, Harvey Phillips, the New York Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Beaux Arts Trio, Fisk jubilee Singers, Louisville Symphony, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, the Audubon String Quartet, and the International Horn Society.

With four or more dimensions, Ricci curvature does not describe the curvature tensor completely.

The notion of a " closed universe " can refer to the universe being a closed manifold but more likely refers to the universe being a manifold of constant positive Ricci curvature.