Luigi Guido Grandi

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Dom
Guido Grandi
FRS
Guido Grandi
Born
Francesco Lodovico Grandi

(1671-10-01)1 October 1671
Cremona, Duchy of Milan
Died4 July 1742(1742-07-04) (aged 70)
Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Resting placeSan Michele in Borgo
NationalityItalian
Other namesDubeno Erimanzio
Known forStudies on the rose curve
Grandi's series
Parent(s)Pietro Martire Grandi and Caterina Grandi (née Legati)
Scientific career
Fieldsmathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Pisa
Notable studentsGiammaria Ortes[1]
Giovanni Lami[2]

theologian, mathematician, and engineer
.

Life

Grandi was born on 1 October 1671 in

Holy Orders. A year later, Grandi was assigned as professor of both fields at the Camaldolese Monastery of St. Mary of the Angels in Florence. It appears that it was during this period of his life that he took an interest in mathematics. He did his research privately, however, as he was appointed professor of philosophy at St. Gregory Monastery in 1700, subsequently holding a post in the same field in Pisa
, where he replaced Pascasio Giannetti.

By 1707, however, Dom Grandi had developed such a reputation in the field of mathematics that he was named court mathematician to the

Cosimo III de Medici. In that post, he also worked as an engineer, being appointed Superintendent of Water for the Duchy, and in that capacity, he was involved in the drainage of the Chiana Valley. In 1709 he visited England where he clearly impressed his colleagues there, as he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. The University of Pisa
named him Professor of Mathematics in 1714. It was there that he died on 4 July 1742.

Mathematical studies

In 1701 Grandi published a study of the

Leibniz' ideas on calculus
to Italy.

In mathematics Grandi is best known for his work Flores geometrici (1728), studying the rose curve, a curve which has the shape of a petalled flower, and for Grandi's series. He named the rose curve rhodonea. He also contributed to the Note on the Treatise of Galileo Concerning Natural Motion in the first Florentine edition of Galileo Galilei's works.

List of works

De infinitis infinitorum
  • Geometrica demonstratio Vivianeorum problematum. Florentiae: ex Typographia Iacobi de Guiduccis propè Conductam. 1699.
  • De infinitis infinitorum, et infinite parvorum ordinibus disquisitio geometrica. Pisis: ex Typographia Francisci Bindi impress. archiepisch. 1710.
  • Epistola mathematica de momento gravium in planis inclinatis. Lucae: typis Peregrini Frediani. 1711.
  • Dialoghi circa la controversia eccitatagli contro dal sig. Alessandro Marchetti. In Lucca: ad istanza di Francesco Maria Gaddi librajo in Pisa. 1712.
  • Prostasis ad exceptiones clari Varignonii libro De infinitis infinitorum ordinibus oppositas circa magnitudinum plusquam-infinitarum Vallisii defensionem et anguli contactus. Pisis: ex Typographia Francisci Bindi impress. archiepisch. 1713.
  • Del movimento dell'acque trattato geometrico. Firenze.
  • Relazione delle operazioni fatte circa il padule di Fucecchio. In Lucca: per Leonardo Venturini. 1718.
  • Trattato delle resistenze. Firenze: per Tartini e Franchi. 1718.
  • Compendio delle Sezioni coniche d'Apollonio con aggiunta di nuove proprietà delle medesime sezioni. In Firenze: nella Stamperia di S.A.R. per gli Tartini e Franchi. 1722.
  • Instituzioni meccaniche. In Firenze: nella Stamperia di S.A.R. per Gio: Gaetano Tartini e Santi Franchi. 1739.
  • Istituzioni di aritmetica pratica. In Firenze: nella Stamperia di S.A.R. per Gio: Gaetano Tartini e Santi Franchi. 1740.
  • Sectionum conicarum synopsis. Florentiae: ex typographio Ioannis Paulli Giovannelli. 1750.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6
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  2. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6
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  3. ^ "Maria Agnesi and her Witch" Archived 2011-10-09 at the Wayback Machine

External links

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