Ignatz Mühlwenzel

Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel
Born c. 1690
Eger, Kingdom of Bohemia
Died November 7, 1766(1766-11-07)
Wrocław, Kingdom of Prussia
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Prague, Bohemia
University of Breslau, Prussia (now University of 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)[1] 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.[1][2]

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

References

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


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