where is he from?
Bruges
Grégoire de Saint-Vincent
Gregoire was born in Bruges 8 September 1584. After reading philosophy in Douai
when are polar coordinates used in real life In spirals who came up with the system? Grégoire de Saint-Vincent and Bonaventura Cavalieri who is the former? He was a Flemish Jesuit and mathematician. what was his contribution to the concept of hyperbola? He found that the area under a rectangular hyperbola (i.e. a curve given by "xy = k") is the same over [a,b] as over [c,d] when This observation led to the hyperbolic logarithm.
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Grégoire de Saint-Vincent [SEP] Life
Gregoire was born in Bruges 8 September 1584. After reading philosophy in Douai, he entered the Society of Jesus 21 October 1605. His talent was recognized by Christopher Clavius in Rome. Gregoire was sent to Louvain in 1612, and was ordained a priest 23 March 1613. Gregoire began teaching in association with François d'Aguilon in Antwerp from 1617 to 20. Moving to Louvain in 1621, he taught mathematics there until 1625. That year he became obsessed with squaring the circle and requested permission from Mutio Vitelleschi to publish his method. But Vitelleschi deferred to Christoph Grienberger, the mathematician in Rome.