Ignatz Mühlwenzel

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Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (c. 1690 – 11 July 1766) was a Czech mathematician.

Life

Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (referred to in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich as Heinrich Mühlwenzel)[1] was a member of the Jesuit order and a professor of mathematics at the University of Prague. He was of minority German ethnicity in western border of the Kingdom of Bohemia. He was a skilled optician who ground lenses for his own telescopes. Mühlwenzel is notable because his mathematical "descendants," which include Johann Radon, number more than 10,000.[1][2]

In 1736, he published Fundamenta mathematica ex arithmetica, geometria et trigonometria.

References

  1. 1.[1.2]Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Vol. 19, Vienna 1868, p. 318 on German Wikisource
  2. 2.Mathematics Genealogy Project entry for Ignatz Mühlwenzel