Christopher Clavius, born in Bamberg in 1538 and dead in Rome in 1612, was a German Jesuit mathematician, physicist and astronomer who headed the mathematicians of the Collegio Romano. He sat on the commission that accepted the calendar devised by Aloysius Lilius and later defended and explained the reform, which Pope Gregory XIII adopted in 1582 as the Gregorian calendar now used worldwide. Within the Jesuit order he was almost single-handedly responsible for a rigorous mathematics curriculum, and his textbooks were used for over fifty years. In his last years he was probably the most respected astronomer in Europe. In logic, Clavius's Law, inferring a proposition from the inconsistency of its negation, is named after him.
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Clavius, (25 March 1538 – 6 February 1612) was a Jesuit German mathematician and physicist, head of mathematicians at the Collegio Romano, and astronomer who was a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar invented by
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Several guesses such as 'Clau' or 'Klau', or even 'Schlüssel' which means 'key' so might have led to him taking the Latin 'Clavius' which also means 'key', have been made but none have ever been substantiated with any evidence.
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Clavius, (25 March 1538-6 February 1612) was a Jesuit German mathematician and physicist, head of mathematicians at the Collegio Romano, and astronomer who was a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar invented by
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Clavius, (25 March 1538-6 February 1612) was a Jesuit German mathematician and physicist, head of mathematicians at the Collegio Romano, and astronomer who was a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar invented by
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Clavius, (25 March 1538-6 February 1612) was a Jesuit German mathematician and physicist, head of mathematicians at the Collegio Romano, and astronomer who was a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar invented by
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Clavius, (25 March 1538-6 February 1612) was a Jesuit German mathematician and physicist, head of mathematicians at the Collegio Romano, and astronomer who was a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar invented by
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He studied in Prague and Vienna, and subsequently succeeded his tutor, Christopher Clavius, as professor of mathematics at the Collegio Romano in 1612.
Matteo Ricci (MacTutor)
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studying mathematics and astronomy under Clavius
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He had one of the leading mathematicians of the day as a teacher, namely Christopher Clavius.
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He was a student of Christopher Clavius at the Collegio Romano in Rome
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the College of Brescia with Marco Antonio De Dominis, and at the Academy of Mathematics in the Roman College with
Orazio Grassi (Wikipedia)
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Among his professors were the noted German Jesuit mathematicians, Christopher Clavius, Christoph Grienberger and Odo Van Maelcote.
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