André Tacquet

Mathematician, Deceased Person

1612 – 1660

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Who was André Tacquet?

André Tacquet was a Flemish mathematician and Jesuit Priest. His work prepared ground for the eventual discovery of the calculus.

He was born in Antwerp, and entered the Jesuit Order in 1629. From 1631 to 1635, he studied mathematics, physics and logic at Leuven. Two of his teachers were Saint-Vincent and Francois d'Aguilon.

Tacquet became a brilliant mathematician of international fame and his works were often reprinted and translated. He helped articulate some of the preliminary concepts necessary for Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz to recognize the inverse nature of the quadrature and the tangent. He was one of the precursors of the infinitesimal calculus, developed by John Wallis. His most famous work, which influenced the thinking of Blaise Pascal and his contemporaries, is Cylindricorum et annularium. In this book Tacquet presented how a moving point could generate a curve and the theories of area and volume.

He died in Antwerp.

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Born
Jun 23, 1612
Antwerp
Also known as
  • Andre Tacquet
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Died
Dec 22, 1660

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on July 23, 2013

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