Grandi

Luigi Guido Grandi

Born: 1 Oct 1671 in Cremona, Italy
Died: 4 July 1742 in Pisa, Italy

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Grandi was an important early worker on calculus and was a member of the order of the Camaldolites, Professor of Philosophy (1700) then Professor of Mathematics (1714) at the University of Pisa.

Grandi was the author of a number of works on geometry in which he considered the analogies of the circle and equilateral hyperbola. He also considered curves of double curvature on the sphere and the quadrature of parts of a spherical surface. He studied the curve the Witch of Agnesi in 1703.

References elsewhere in this archive:

Show me the Witch of Agnesi

He also worked on Rhodenea curves

Other Web sites:

Rice University, USA

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. G Loria, Storia delle matematiche (Milan, 1950). 
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