Mathematician:Nicholas of Cusa

Mathematician
German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer.

Believed he had calculated $\pi$ exactly, as $3 \cdotp 1423$, but then also gave a good trigonometrical approximation later used by

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 1401 in Kues, Trier, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany)
 * Died: 11 August 1464 in Todi, Papal States (now Italy)

Publications

 * De Docta Ignorantia (Of Learned Ignorance)
 * De Visione Dei (On the Vision of God)
 * On Conjectures


 * 1445: De geometricis transmutationibus
 * 1445: De arithmeticis complementis
 * 1450: De circuli quadratura
 * 1450: Quadratura circuli
 * 1453: De mathematicis complementis
 * 1457: Dialogus de circuli quadratura
 * 1457: De caesarea circuli quadratura
 * 1458: De mathematica perfectione
 * 1459: Aurea propositio in mathematicis


 * Declaratio rectilineationis curvae
 * De una recti curvique mensura