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Pietro Cataldi

1552 - 1626

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Pietro Antonio Cataldi (15 April 1548, Bologna – 11 February 1626, Bologna) was an Italian mathematician. A citizen of Bologna, he taught mathematics and astronomy and also worked on military problems. His work included the development of simple continued fractions and a method for their representation. He was one of many mathematicians who attempted to prove Euclid's fifth postulate. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pietro Cataldi is the 319th most popular mathematician (up from 334th in 2019), the 1,853rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,118th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pietro Cataldi ranks 319 out of 1,004. Before him are Farkas Bolyai, Abraham Wald, Grigory Margulis, Guo Shoujing, Alain Connes, and Abu Zayd al-Balkhi. After him are Willem de Sitter, Edward Kasner, Lennart Carleson, Kunihiko Kodaira, Edward Waring, and Georg Alexander Pick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1552, Pietro Cataldi ranks 14. Before him are Hans von Aachen, Jost Bürgi, Edmund Spenser, Petrus Plancius, Agrippa d'Aubigné, and Henri, Prince of Condé. After him are Dom Justo Takayama, Paolo Sarpi, Anna of Cleves, Barbara Longhi, Marfa Sobakina, and Richard Hakluyt. Among people deceased in 1626, Pietro Cataldi ranks 10. Before him are John Dowland, William V, Duke of Bavaria, Ernst von Mansfeld, Adriaen de Vries, Paul Bril, and Marino Ghetaldi. After him are Isabella of Savoy, Christian the Younger of Brunswick, Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Wakisaka Yasuharu, and Edmund Gunter.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pietro Cataldi ranks 1,853 out of 5,161. Before him are Guido Cantelli (1920), Maria Beatrice of Savoy (1792), Maddalena de' Medici (1473), Pietro Rava (1916), Paolo Tosti (1846), and Theron of Acragas (-535). After him are Claudio Merulo (1533), Guidobaldo da Montefeltro (1472), Hieronymus Fabricius (1533), Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma (1666), Arioald (550), and Gianfranco Ferré (1944).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Pietro Cataldi ranks 25. Before him are Tullio Levi-Civita (1873), Giovanni Ceva (1647), Paolo Ruffini (1765), Jacopo Riccati (1676), Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750), and Enrico Bombieri (1940). After him are Eugenio Beltrami (1835), Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853), Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (1781), Giambattista Benedetti (1530), Francesco Maurolico (1494), and Ostilio Ricci (1540).

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