Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1598)

Bonaventura Cavalieri

Italian monk and mathematician (1598–1647)

Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri was an Italian mathematician and a Jesuate. He is known for his work on the problems of optics and motion, work on indivisibles, the precursors of infinitesimal calculus, and the introduction of logarithms to Italy. Cavalieri's principle in…