19th century swiss mathematician who proved that "there can be at most 6 regular polytopes in four-space" (B3D, 101) in "a long work on higher-dimensional geometry which contained not one picture." (B3D, 102).
19th century English clergyman and mathematician who wrote Flatland, "a social satire and an introduction to the idea of higher dimensions" (B3D, 2).
17th century French mathematician and physicist who
joined the
Jansenist monastery at Port-Royalmonestary late in his life.
Bernhard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano
Late 18th and early 19th century Czech mathematician/Roman
Catholic priest who "freed
calculus from the concept of the infinitesimal."
A 17th century mathematician and a member of the
Cistercian Order,
Lobkowitz worked with numbers to base n and logarithms.
A Protestant minister born in the middle of the 16th
century who
calculated pi to 28 places using "a new method."
17th century Rector of a religious establishment
in Rome and
mathematician who used infinitesimals to study spirals, parabolas and
hyperbolas.
14th century French mathematician who invented coordinate
geometry
and served as a chaplain to King Charles V.