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Giovanni girolamo saccheri biography sampler
Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri
Italian Jesuit priest, philosopher and mathematician (1667–1733)
Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (Italian pronunciation:[dʒoˈvannidʒiˈrɔːlamosakˈkɛːri]; 5 September 1667 – 25 October 1733) was an Italian Jesuit priest, scholastic philosopher, and mathematician.
He is considered the forerunner of non-Euclidean geometry.
Biography
The son of a lawyer, Saccheri was born in Sanremo, Genoa (now Italy) on September 5, 1667. From his youth he showed extreme precociousness and a spirit of inquiry.
He entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1685.
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He studied philosophy and theology at the Jesuit College of Brera in Milan.
His mathematics teacher at the Brera college was Tommaso Ceva, who introduced him to his brother Giovanni. Ceva convinced Saccheri to devote himself to mathematical research and became the young man's mentor.
Saccheri was in close scientific communion with both brothers. He used Ceva's ingenious methods in his first published work, 1693, solu