Mengoli

Pietro Mengoli

Born: 1626 in Bologna, Italy
Died: 1686 in Bologna, Italy

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Mengoli was influenced by Cavalieri, whose post he took up at Bologna.

Mengoli used infinite series to good effect. He showed that the harmonic series does not converge and that the harmonic series with alternating signs converges to log(2).
This series was also investigated by Nicolaus Mercator,

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Rice University, USA

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. A Augostini, La teoria dei limiti in Pietro Mengoli, Periodico di matematiche 5 (1925), 18-30.
  3. P Nastasi and A Scimone, Pietro Mengoli and the Six-Square Problem, Historia Mathematica 21 (1994), 10-27. 
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