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Bonaventura Cavalieri

1598 - 1647

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Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri (Latin: Bonaventura Cavalerius; 1598 – 30 November 1647) was an Italian mathematician and a Jesuate. He is known for his work on the problems of optics and motion, work on indivisibles, the precursors of infinitesimal calculus, and the introduction of logarithms to Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bonaventura Cavalieri has received more than 186,676 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Bonaventura Cavalieri is the 73rd most popular mathematician (up from 85th in 2019), the 561st most popular biography from Italy (up from 605th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Italian Mathematician.

Bonaventura Cavalieri was an Italian mathematician who is most famous for his work in geometry. He was the first person to use algebra to find the area of a circle.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Bonaventura Cavalieri ranks 73 out of 1,004. Before him are Abraham de Moivre, Ludolph van Ceulen, Giuseppe Peano, Richard Dedekind, Alexander Grothendieck, and Nikolai Lobachevsky. After him are Zhang Heng, Alfred North Whitehead, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Benoit Mandelbrot, Augustus De Morgan, and Andrey Kolmogorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1598, Bonaventura Cavalieri ranks 3. Before him are Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and Francisco de Zurbarán. After him are François Mansart, Eleonora Gonzaga, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Maarten Tromp, William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Johann Crüger, Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Michael van Langren, and Daniele Crespi. Among people deceased in 1647, Bonaventura Cavalieri ranks 2. Before him is Evangelista Torricelli. After him are Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Peter Mogila, Matthias Gallas, Giovanni Lanfranco, Zhang Xianzhong, Sebastiaen Vrancx, Masaniello, Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, and Zhu Yuyue.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Bonaventura Cavalieri ranks 561 out of 5,161. Before him are Romano Prodi (1939), Paolo Rossi (1956), Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples (1937), Maria Anna of Savoy (1803), Maria Luisa of Parma (1751), and Gentile Bellini (1429). After him are Denis (210), Philip of Swabia (1177), Benedetto Croce (1866), Gregorio Allegri (1582), Giacomo Leopardi (1798), and Propertius (-50).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Bonaventura Cavalieri ranks 11. Before him are Gerolamo Cardano (1501), Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718), Archytas (-428), Philolaus (-470), and Giuseppe Peano (1858). After him are Lodovico Ferrari (1522), Aloysius Lilius (1510), Vincenzo Viviani (1622), Scipione del Ferro (1465), Giambattista della Porta (1535), and Rafael Bombelli (1526).

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