UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA ESTUDIS MATEMÀTICS DE PIETRO MENGOLI (1625-1686): TAULES TRIANGULARS DE I QUASI PROPORCIONS DE VIETE. ... DEPARTAMENTDE MATEMÀTIQUES. CENTRE D'ESTUDIS D'HISTÒRIA DE LES CIÈNCIES.... more
UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA ESTUDIS MATEMÀTICS DE PIETRO MENGOLI (1625-1686): TAULES TRIANGULARS DE I QUASI PROPORCIONS DE VIETE. ... DEPARTAMENTDE MATEMÀTIQUES. CENTRE D'ESTUDIS D'HISTÒRIA DE LES CIÈNCIES. ...
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ABSTRACT The name of Pietro Mengoli (1626–1686) appears in the University of Bologna registry for the period 1648–1686. He studied with Bonaventura Cavalieri and ultimately succeeded him in the chair of mechanics. He graduated in... more
ABSTRACT The name of Pietro Mengoli (1626–1686) appears in the University of Bologna registry for the period 1648–1686. He studied with Bonaventura Cavalieri and ultimately succeeded him in the chair of mechanics. He graduated in philosophy in 1650 and 3 years later in canon and civil law. In his first period, he wrote three mathematical books, Novae quadraturae arithmeticae seu de additione fractionum (Bologna, 1650), Via Regia ad Mathematicas per Arithmeticam, Algebram Speciosam, & Planimetriam, ornata, maiestati Serenissimae D. Christinae Reginae Suecorum (Bologna, 1655) and Geometriae Speciosae Elementa (Bologna, 1659). He took holy orders in 1660 and was prior at the church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Bologna until his death.
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The creation of a formal mathematical language was fundamental to making mathematics algebraic. A landmark in this process was the publication of In artem analyticem isagoge by François Viète (1540–1603) in 1591. This work was diffused... more
The creation of a formal mathematical language was fundamental to making mathematics algebraic. A landmark in this process was the publication of In artem analyticem isagoge by François Viète (1540–1603) in 1591. This work was diffused through many other algebra texts, as in the section entitled Algebra in the Cursus mathematicus (Paris, 1634, 1637, 1642; second edition 1644) by Pierre
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... se'n poden destacar dues explícita-ment crítiques redactades per dos savis àrabs musulmans: la primera, el 1265, del conegut astrònom i matemàtic Nasir al-din ... Si ADB i AEG són dos arcs de cercles màxims i DG i BE són dos... more
... se'n poden destacar dues explícita-ment crítiques redactades per dos savis àrabs musulmans: la primera, el 1265, del conegut astrònom i matemàtic Nasir al-din ... Si ADB i AEG són dos arcs de cercles màxims i DG i BE són dos arcs més que es tallen en el punt Z, aleshores es ...