Mathematician:Piero Della Francesca

Italian painter and mathematician.

Recognized as one of the most important Renaissance painters, but was also a creditable mathematician.

His surviving mathematical works concern such subjects as: the abacus; the five Platonic solids, and perspective in painting.

Nationality
Italian

History

 * Born: 1412, Borgo San Sepolero (now Sansepolcro), Italy
 * Died: 12 Oct 1492, Borgo San Sepolero, Italy

Books and Papers
Three works of his are known to have survived, although none were published in his lifetime:


 * Trattato d'abaco (Abacus treatise)
 * Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus (Short book on the five regular solids)
 * De prospectiva pingendi (On perspective for painting)

His works circulated widely in manuscript form, and much became influential enough to be incorporated into the works of others.