José Anastácio da Cunha was a Portuguese mathematician and educator, born in Lisbon on 11 May 1744 and dead on 1 January 1787, whose work anticipated nineteenth-century developments in analysis by several decades. He is best known for his work on the theory of equations, algebraic analysis, plain and spherical trigonometry, analytical geometry and differential calculus. Largely self-taught, he took a commission as a lieutenant in the Portuguese artillery in 1762, and in 1773 the Marquês de Pombal appointed him to the new chair of geometry at the University of Coimbra. After a period of imprisonment by the Portuguese Inquisition for alleged heterodox opinions he was pardoned and in 1781 organised mathematics instruction at the Real Casa Pia in Lisbon.
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José Anastácio da Cunha (11 May 1744-1 January 1787) was a Portuguese mathematician and educator whose work anticipated nineteenth‑century developments in analysis by several decades.
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He is best known for his work on the theory of equations, algebraic analysis, plain and spherical trigonometry, analytical geometry, and differential calculus.
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He is best known for his work on the theory of equations, algebraic analysis, plain and spherical trigonometry, analytical geometry, and differential calculus.
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José Anastácio da Cunha (11 May 1744-1 January 1787) was a Portuguese mathematician and educator whose work anticipated nineteenth‑century developments in analysis by several decades.
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