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

Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel
Bornc. 1690
Died(1766-11-07)November 7, 1766
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Prague, Bohemia
University of Breslau, Prussia (now University of Wrocław, Poland)

Life

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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 Czech border.[clarification needed] 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

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