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Pietro Cataldi

1552 - 1626

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Pietro Antonio Cataldi (15 April 1548, Bologna – 11 February 1626, Bologna) was an Italian mathematician. A citizen of Bologna, he taught mathematics and astronomy and also worked on military problems. His work included the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pietro Cataldi has received more than 42,247 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Pietro Cataldi is the 334th most popular mathematician (up from 339th in 2019), the 2,118th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,114th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pietro Cataldi ranks 334 out of 1,004. Before him are Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Enrico Bombieri, René-Louis Baire, Guidobaldo del Monte, Sergei Sobolev, and Guillaume Postel. After him are Nicholas Mercator, Sergei Novikov, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin, Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, and Frank P. Ramsey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1552, Pietro Cataldi ranks 15. Before him are Jost Bürgi, Edmund Spenser, Dom Justo Takayama, Petrus Plancius, Henri, Prince of Condé, and Agrippa d'Aubigné. After him are Anna of Cleves, Paolo Sarpi, Marfa Sobakina, Barbara Longhi, Alberico Gentili, and Edward Coke. Among people deceased in 1626, Pietro Cataldi ranks 13. Before him are Adriaen de Vries, Christian the Younger of Brunswick, Isabella of Savoy, Wakisaka Yasuharu, Marino Ghetaldi, and Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Paul Bril, Théophile de Viau, Odoardo Farnese, John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Edmund Gunter.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pietro Cataldi ranks 2,118 out of 5,161. Before him are Ferruccio Parri (1890), Claudia Marcella Major (-41), Hippocrates of Gela (-600), Antonio Rossellino (1427), Agostino di Duccio (1418), and Beatrice Regina della Scala (1333). After him are Anne Marie Martinozzi (1637), Luisa of Naples and Sicily (1773), Orso Ipato (726), Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1607), Goffredo Mameli (1827), and Orio Mastropiero (1150).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Pietro Cataldi ranks 28. Before him are Jacopo Riccati (1676), Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750), Giambattista Benedetti (1530), Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853), Enrico Bombieri (1940), and Guidobaldo del Monte (1545). After him are Ignazio Danti (1536), Ernesto Cesàro (1859), Ostilio Ricci (1540), Plato Tiburtinus (1110), Eugenio Beltrami (1835), and Campanus of Novara (1210).

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