Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri
Italian mathematician
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Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri was an Italian Jesuit priest, scholastic philosopher, and mathematician. He is considered the forerunner of non-Euclidean geometry. Wikipedia
Born: September 5, 1667, Sanremo, Italy
Died: October 25, 1733 (age 66 years), Milan, Italy
Known for: Non-Euclidean geometry; Saccheri quadrilateral; Saccheri–Legendre theorem
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