Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (c. 1690 – 11 July 1766) was a Bohemian mathematician.

Life

Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (referred to in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich as Heinrich Mühlwenzel) was a member of the Jesuit order and a professor of mathematics at the University of Prague. He was of minority German ethnicity in western Czech border. He was a skilled optician who ground lenses for his own telescopes. Mühlwenzel is notable because his mathematical "descendants," which include Johann Radon, number more than 10,000.

Ignatz Mühlwenzel

In 1736 he published Fundamenta mathematica ex arithmetica, geometria et trigonometria.

Ignatz Mühlwenzel

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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

Ignatz Mühlwenzel