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Pietro Mengoli

1626 - 1686

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Pietro Mengoli (1626, Bologna – June 7, 1686, Bologna) was an Italian mathematician and clergyman from Bologna, where he studied with Bonaventura Cavalieri at the University of Bologna, and succeeded him in 1647. He remained as professor there for the next 39 years of his life. Mengoli was pivotal figure in the development of calculus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pietro Mengoli has received more than 36,971 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Pietro Mengoli is the 530th most popular mathematician (down from 502nd in 2019), the 2,842nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,614th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pietro Mengoli ranks 530 out of 823Before him are Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Carl Adam Petri, Ulisse Dini, René de Saussure, Isadore Singer, and Mary Cartwright. After him are Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Serge Lang, Max Noether, Sydney Chapman, Robert Axelrod, and Ernst Leonard Lindelöf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1626, Pietro Mengoli ranks 14Before him are Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur, Giovanni Legrenzi, Louis Couperin, Bada Shanren, Andrea Guarneri, and John Aubrey. After him are Jan van Kessel the Elder, Simon Ushakov, Ole Borch, and Louis Hennepin. Among people deceased in 1686, Pietro Mengoli ranks 11Before him are Carlo Dolci, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, François Blondel, Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, and John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. After him are Jacques d'Arthois and Simon Ushakov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pietro Mengoli ranks 2,842 out of 4,668Before him are Amedeo Nazzari (1907), Achille Silvestrini (1923), Pietro Barbolano (950), Francesco Graziani (1952), Amatus of Montecassino (1010), and Michele Morosini (1308). After him are Camillo Berneri (1897), Alessandro Fortis (1842), Rose McGowan (1973), Francesco de Sanctis (1817), Licia Albanese (1909), and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (1963).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Pietro Mengoli ranks 43Before him are Enrico Betti (1823), Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555), Benedetto Castelli (1578), Campanus of Novara (1210), Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728), and Ulisse Dini (1845). After him are Giovanni Battista Zupi (1589), Beppo Levi (1875), Gino Fano (1871), Luigi Bianchi (1856), Plato Tiburtinus (1110), and Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (1781).