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Pietro Mengoli

1626 - 1686

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Pietro Mengoli (1626, Bologna – June 7, 1686, Bologna) was an Italian mathematician and clergyman from Bologna, where he studied with Bonaventura Cavalieri at the University of Bologna, and succeeded him in 1647. He remained as professor there for the next 39 years of his life. Mengoli was pivotal figure in the development of calculus. He established the divergence of the harmonic series nearly forty years before Jacob Bernoulli, to whom the discovery is generally attributed; he gave a development in series of logarithms thirteen years before Nicholas Mercator published his famous treatise Logarithmotechnia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pietro Mengoli is the 535th most popular mathematician (up from 605th in 2019), the 2,778th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,194th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pietro Mengoli ranks 535 out of 1,004. Before him are George David Birkhoff, Julia Robinson, Arnaud Denjoy, Harold Jeffreys, Richard E. Bellman, and Rózsa Péter. After him are Hans Freudenthal, Erik Ivar Fredholm, Max Dehn, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Jordanus de Nemore, and Jean Leray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1626, Pietro Mengoli ranks 15. Before him are Giovanni Legrenzi, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Bada Shanren, Louis Couperin, Andrea Guarneri, and John Aubrey. After him are Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken, Simon Ushakov, Ole Borch, and Louis Hennepin. Among people deceased in 1686, Pietro Mengoli ranks 10. Before him are Eleonora Gonzaga, Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Carlo Dolci, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, François Blondel, and John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach. After him are John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Jacques d'Arthois, Simon Ushakov, and Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pietro Mengoli ranks 2,778 out of 5,161. Before him are Alberto Gilardino (1982), Marco Foscarini (1696), Daria Nicolodi (1950), Guido Bonatti (1210), Alberto Burri (1915), and Benedetto Cairoli (1825). After him are Mario Minniti (1577), Lucrezia Barberini (1628), Rossano Brazzi (1916), Roberto Calasso (1941), Melus of Bari (1000), and Beatrice of Sicily, Latin Empress (1252).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Pietro Mengoli ranks 42. Before him are Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555), Benedetto Castelli (1578), Enrico Betti (1823), Luigi Cremona (1830), Campanus of Novara (1210), and Guidobaldo del Monte (1545). After him are Giovanni Battista Zupi (1589), Gino Fano (1871), Ulisse Dini (1845), Plato Tiburtinus (1110), Giacomo F. Maraldi (1665), and Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825).

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