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Bonaventura Cavalieri was born in Milan in 1598, became a Jesuat (not Jesuit, as is frequently incorrectly stated] at the age of fifteen, studied under Galileo, and served as a professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna from 1629 until his death in 1647 at the age of forty-nine. He was one of the most influenital mathematicians of his time and wrote a number of works on mathematics, optics, and astronomy. |
He was largely reaponsible to mathematics was a treatise, Geometria im\ndivisibilibus, published in its first form in 1635, devoted to the precalculus (ca. 410 B.C.) and Archimedes (ca. 287-212 B.C.), very likely it was Kepler's attempts to find certain areas and volumes that directly motivated Cavalieri.
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