Bonaventura Cavalieri was an Italian mathematician who developed a method of indivisibles which became a factor in the development of the integral calculus. He was born in Milan in 1598 and was given the name Francesco, taking the name Bonaventura when he joined the religious order of the Jesuati in 1615. He studied mathematics at Pisa under Benedetto Castelli and died in Bologna on 30 November 1647. Cavalieri's principle, the idea that solids of equal cross-sectional areas at every height have equal volumes, comes from his work.
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Bonaventura Cavalieri was an Italian mathematician who developed a method of indivisibles which became a factor in the development of the integral calculus.
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Bonaventura Cavalieri was an Italian mathematician who developed a method of indivisibles which became a factor in the development of the integral calculus.
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The case of higher integers was computed by Cavalieri for n up to 9, using his method of indivisibles (Cavalieri's principle).
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