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Giambattista Benedetti

1530 - 1590

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Giambattista (Gianbattista) Benedetti (14 August 1530 – 20 January 1590) was an Italian mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giambattista Benedetti has received more than 43,986 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Giambattista Benedetti is the 301st most popular mathematician (up from 310th in 2019), the 1,921st most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,970th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Giambattista Benedetti ranks 301 out of 1,004. Before him are Liu Xin, Vergilius of Salzburg, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Kiyosi Itô, Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, and Georg Alexander Pick. After him are Alan Baker, Jakow Trachtenberg, Vitello, Eutocius of Ascalon, Eugène Charles Catalan, and Aristyllus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Giambattista Benedetti ranks 15. Before him are Louis, Prince of Condé, Jan Kochanowski, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Christopher Báthory, Juan de Herrera, and Starina Novak. After him are Kuyucu Murad Pasha, Symon Budny, Ōtomo Sōrin, Ranuccio Farnese, Grace O'Malley, and Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow. Among people deceased in 1590, Giambattista Benedetti ranks 13. Before him are Gioseffo Zarlino, Bernardino de Sahagún, Francis Walsingham, Charles de Bourbon, Marietta Robusti, and Frans Hogenberg. After him are Maddalena Casulana, François Hotman, Leone Leoni, Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, Catherine of Ricci, and André Thevet.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giambattista Benedetti ranks 1,921 out of 5,161. Before him are Raginpert (662), Adriano Galliani (1944), Guarino da Verona (1374), Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (1852), Gio Ponti (1891), and Giorgio Chiellini (1984). After him are Fabio Testi (1941), Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan (1009), Maddalena Casulana (1544), Nanni di Banco (1380), Perctarit (645), and Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1851).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Giambattista Benedetti ranks 24. Before him are Vito Volterra (1860), Giovanni Ceva (1647), Tullio Levi-Civita (1873), Paolo Ruffini (1765), Jacopo Riccati (1676), and Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750). After him are Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853), Enrico Bombieri (1940), Guidobaldo del Monte (1545), Pietro Cataldi (1552), Ignazio Danti (1536), and Ernesto Cesàro (1859).

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