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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 40,555 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Giambattista Benedetti is the 310th most popular mathematician (down from 307th in 2019), the 1,975th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,898th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Giambattista Benedetti ranks 310 out of 823Before him are Enrico Bombieri, Wilhelm Ackermann, John Edensor Littlewood, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Georg Alexander Pick, and Paul Cohen. After him are Lev Pontryagin, Oronce Finé, Edmund Landau, Shing-Tung Yau, Kiyosi Itô, and Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Giambattista Benedetti ranks 17Before him are Jan Kochanowski, Christopher Báthory, Juan de Herrera, Starina Novak, Ranuccio Farnese, and Kuyucu Murad Pasha. After him are Nicholas Rémy, Symon Budny, Grace O'Malley, and Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow. Among people deceased in 1590, Giambattista Benedetti ranks 12Before him are Archduchess Anna of Austria, Bernardino de Sahagún, Gioseffo Zarlino, Francis Walsingham, Charles de Bourbon, and Archduchess Magdalena of Austria. After him are Leone Leoni, Maddalena Casulana, Germain Pilon, Hōjō Ujimasa, François Hotman, and Catherine of Ricci.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giambattista Benedetti ranks 1,975 out of 4,668Before him are Godepert (610), Flaminio Bertoni (1903), Anthony Steffen (1930), Domenico Dragonetti (1763), Théodolinde de Beauharnais (1814), and Charles, Duke of Calabria (1298). After him are Spinello Aretino (1350), Giovanni Giocondo (1433), Bartolomeo Platina (1421), Paulinus II of Aquileia (740), Alberto Tomba (1966), and Carlo Bergonzi (1924).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Giambattista Benedetti ranks 27Before him are Giovanni Ceva (1647), Eugenio Beltrami (1835), Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750), Jacopo Riccati (1676), Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853), and Enrico Bombieri (1940). After him are Ernesto Cesàro (1859), Guidobaldo del Monte (1545), Pietro Cataldi (1552), Ostilio Ricci (1540), Guido Fubini (1879), and Ignazio Danti (1536).