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Federico Commandino

1509 - 1575

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Federico Commandino (1509 – 5 September 1575) was an Italian humanist and mathematician. Born in Urbino, he studied at Padua and then at Ferrara, where he received his doctorate in medicine under Antonio Musa Brassavola. He had numerous patrons throughout his life. Initially, aided by Grassi, the bishop of Viterbo, he then came under the patronage of Pope Clement VIII. In Urbino, he was sponsored by Guidobaldo II della Rovere, but then came to Rome with cardinal Ranuccio Farnese. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Federico Commandino is the 644th most popular mathematician (down from 476th in 2019), the 3,206th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,716th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Federico Commandino ranks 644 out of 1,004. Before him are Cahit Arf, Luigi Bianchi, Ludwig Bieberbach, John Playfair, Beppo Levi, and Heinz Hopf. After him are Lev Schnirelmann, Edward Routh, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Tommaso Ceva, 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, and Alessandro Galilei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1509, Federico Commandino ranks 20. Before him are Étienne Dolet, Melchor Cano, Giovanni Morone, Isabel Moctezuma, Pasquale Cicogna, and Domingo Martínez de Irala.  Among people deceased in 1575, Federico Commandino ranks 15. Before him are Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern, Marcin Bielski, Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Corneille de Lyon. After him are Baba Nobuharu, Annibale Padovano, Sidonie of Saxony, and Matthew Parker.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Federico Commandino ranks 3,207 out of 5,161. Before him are Beppo Levi (1875), Luigi Di Biagio (1971), Ernesto Brambilla (1934), Girolamo de Rada (1814), Luigi Carpaneda (1925), and Carlo Ceresoli (1910). After him are Giancarlo Bergamini (1926), Adeodato Giovanni Piazza (1884), Mario Bertini (1944), Paolo Sardi (1934), Leonidas of Tarentum (-320), and Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius (-200).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Federico Commandino ranks 51. Before him are Ulisse Dini (1845), Plato Tiburtinus (1110), Giacomo F. Maraldi (1665), Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825), Luigi Bianchi (1856), and Beppo Levi (1875). After him are Tommaso Ceva (1648), Alessandro Galilei (1691), Cesare Arzelà (1847), Federigo Enriques (1871), Giuseppe Veronese (1854), and Guido Castelnuovo (1865).

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