Ignatz Mühlwenzel
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Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel | |
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Born | c. 1690 |
Died | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Prague, Bohemia University of Breslau, Prussia (now University of Wrocław, Poland) |
Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (c. 1690 – 11 July 1766) was a Bohemian mathematician.
Life
Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (referred to in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich as Heinrich Mühlwenzel)[1] was a member of the Jesuit order and a professor of mathematics at the University of Prague. He was of minority German ethnicity in western Czech border.[clarification needed] He was a skilled optician who ground lenses for his own telescopes. Mühlwenzel is notable because his mathematical "descendants," which include Johann Radon, number more than 10,000.[1][2]
In 1736 he published Fundamenta mathematica ex arithmetica, geometria et trigonometria.
References
- ^ a b Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Vol. 19, Vienna 1868, p. 318 on German Wikisource
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project entry for Ignatz Mühlwenzel
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