Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel ( – 11 July 1766) was a Czech mathematician.
Life Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (referred to in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich as Heinrich Mühlwenzel)Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Vol. 19, Vienna 1868, p. 318 on German Wikisource was a member of the Jesuit order and a professor of mathematics at the University of Prague. He was of minority German ethnicity in western border of the Kingdom of Bohemia. He was a skilled optician who ground lenses for his own telescopes. Mühlwenzel is notable because his mathematical "descendants," which include Johann Radon, number more than 10,000.Mathematics Genealogy Project entry for Ignatz Mühlwenzel
In 1736, he published Fundamenta mathematica ex arithmetica, geometria et trigonometria.
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