biography
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Regiomontanus
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Latin name of Johannes Müller
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pronunciation:
[rejiohmontaynus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1436–76)
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| biography:
| Mathematician and astronomer, born in Königsberg (Lat Mons Regius, hence his pseudonym), Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He studied at Vienna, and in 1471 settled in Nuremberg where a rich patrician, Bernard Walther, offered him an observatory. He established the study of algebra and trigonometry in Germany, and wrote on a variety of applied topics. In 1474 he was summoned to Rome by Sixtus IV to help reform the calendar. |
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