Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (c. 1690 – 11 July 1766) was a Bohemian
mathematician
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Life
Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (referred to in ''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich'' as ''Heinrich Mühlwenzel'')
[''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich'', Vol. 19, Vienna 1868, p. 31]
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order and a professor of mathematics
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at the University of Prague. He was of minority German ethnicity in western Czech border. He was a skilled optician
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who ground lenses for his own telescopes. Mühlwenzel is notable because his mathematical "descendants," which include Johann Radon
Johann Karl August Radon (; 16 December 1887 – 25 May 1956) was an Austrian mathematician. His doctoral dissertation was on the calculus of variations (in 1910, at the University of Vienna).
Life
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In 1736 he published ''Fundamenta mathematica ex arithmetica, geometria et trigonometria''.
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1690 births
1766 deaths
People from Cheb
German Bohemian people
18th-century German mathematicians
Telescope manufacturers
Jesuit scientists
Catholic clergy scientists
Academic staff of the University of Breslau
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