Field Mathematics | ||
Institutions University of Prague, BohemiaUniversity of Breslau, Germany (now University of Wrocław, Poland) Died 7 November 1766, Wrocław, Poland | ||
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) was a member of the Jesuit order and a professor of mathematics at the University of Prague. He was of minority German ethnics in western Czech border. 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 5800.
In 1736 he published Fundamenta mathematica ex arithmetica, geometria et trigonometria.
References
Ignatz Mühlwenzel Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA