Career
He declined various academic offers, and devoted himself to his studies at home. Peter the Great invited him to Russia as president of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He was also asked to Vienna as an imperial councilor and was offered a professorship at the University of Padua. He declined all these offers.
He was often consulted by the Senate of Venice on the construction of canals and dikes along rivers.
Some of his work on multinomials was included by Maria Gaetana Agnesi, at Riccati's request, in the book on integral calculus of her Analytical Institutions.
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