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Ignatz Mühlwenzel

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Mathematics

Field
  
Mathematics

Institutions
  
University of Prague, Bohemia University 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