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Between Tradition and Innovation: Gregorio a San Vicente and the Flemish Jesuit Mathematics School

Between Tradition and Innovation: Gregorio a San Vicente and the Flemish Jesuit Mathematics School

Meskens, Ad J.

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral EducationGeneral Mathematics

ISBN10: 9004414991
ISBN13: 9789004414990
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 1 2021
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In Between Tradition and Innovation, Ad Meskens traces the profound influence of a group of Flemish Jesuits on the course of mathematics in the seventeenth century. Using manuscript evidence, this book argues that one of the Flemish mathematics school's professors, Gregorio a San Vicente (1584-1667), had developed a logically sound integration method more than a decade before the Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri. Although San Vincente's superiors refused to grant him permission to publish his results, his methods went on to influence numerous other mathematicians through his students, many of whom became famous mathematicians in their own right. By carefully tracing their careers and outlining their biographies, Meskens convincingly shows that they made a number of ground-breaking contributions to fields ranging from mathematics and mechanics to optics and architecture.

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