Bartolomeo Sovero

Bartolomeo Sovero, born in Corbières in 1576 and dead on 23 July 1629, was a Swiss mathematician. He entered the Jesuit order in 1594 and studied logic, mathematics and theology at the Jesuit College of Brera, leaving the Society in 1604. In 1624 he succeeded Giovanni Camillo Glorioso in the chair of mathematics at the University of Padua. His main work, Curvi ac recti proportio, published in 1630, shows him as a precursor of the geometry of indivisibles and of the method called proportional parallel movement, which he set out in algebraic form. His work gave rise to two polemics, one with Glorioso, Galileo's first successor at Padua, and one between Guldin and Cavalieri over the originality of Cavalieri's work.