Background
Grandi was born on October 1, 1671 in Cremona, Italy and christened Luigi.
engineer mathematician philosopher
Grandi was born on October 1, 1671 in Cremona, Italy and christened Luigi.
lieutenant appears that it was during this period of his life that he took an interest in mathematics. He did his research privately, however, as he was appointed professor of philosophy at Saint Gregory Monastery in 1700, subsequently holding a post in the same field in Pisa. By 1707, however, Dom Grandi had developed such a reputation in the field of mathematics that he was named court mathematician to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo III de Medici.
The University of Pisa named him Professor of Mathematics in 1714.
lieutenant was there that he died on 4 July 1742. In 1701 Grandi published a study of the conical loxodrome, followed by a study in 1703 of the curve which he named versiera, from the Latin: vertere (to turn).
Through a mistranslation by the translator of her work into English who mistook the term "witch" (Italian: avversiera) for Grandi"s term, this curve became known in English as the witch of Agnesi. lieutenant was through his studies on this curve that Grandi helped introduce Leibniz" ideas on calculus to Italy.
In mathematics Grandi is best known for his work Flores geometrici (1728), studying the rose curve, a curve which has the shape of a petalled flower, and for Grandi"s series.
He named the rose curve rhodonea. He also contributed to the Note on the Treatise of Galileo Concerning Natural Motion in the first Florentine edition of Galileo Galilei"s works.
Royal Society.
