Niccolò Aggiunti (1600 in
Sansepolcro
Sansepolcro, formerly Borgo Santo Sepolcro, is a town and ''comune'' founded in the 11th century, located in the Italian Province of Arezzo in the eastern part of the region of Tuscany.
Situated on the upper reaches of the Tiber river, the town ...
– 1635) was an
Italian mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
. He studied in Pisa under
Benedetto Castelli. After receiving his degree in 1621, he became a teacher of
Ferdinando II de 'Medici. During this period he probably met
Galileo Galilei
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Commonly referred to as Galileo, his name was pronounced (, ). He was ...
, later becoming one of his favorite students. In 1626 he was awarded the chair of mathematics in Pisa, as Castelli's successor. In Sansepolcro, his city, one of the main streets of the historic center is named after his name.
References
Niccolò Aggiunti on Treccani.it – Encyclopedias on line, Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia.
Niccolò Aggiunti in the Biographical Dictionary of Italians, Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia.
Works by Niccolò Aggiunti on openMLOL, Horizons Unlimited srl.
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Works by Niccolò Aggiunti on Open Library, Internet Archive. Editing on Wikidata
Niccolò Aggiunti
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1600 births
1635 deaths
17th-century Italian mathematicians
University of Pisa alumni