Timeline for Reference request: Leonardo Da Vinci's supposed math results
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| Oct 19, 2022 at 11:41 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 19, 2022 at 9:03 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 19, 2022 at 7:52 | comment | added | Bruno Martelli | Luca Pacioli and Piero della Francesca are usually cited as renaissance artists who were also mathematicians (Piero found an astonishing formula for the volume of the tetrahedron). The only thing I know about Leonardo is that he has drawn various beautiful polyhedra in the famous book of Pacioli "De divina proportione". (Imagine that you write a maths paper and Leonardo offers to draw the pictures...) | |
| S Oct 19, 2022 at 7:44 | history | suggested | J. W. Tanner |
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| Oct 19, 2022 at 5:17 | comment | added | Daniele Tampieri | @efs yes, he is. He also wrote a book on him ("unfortunately" in Italian) and some contributions published in collections, proceedings and journals. I think this material is relevant, but I have not consulted it so I am not completely sure. | |
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| Oct 19, 2022 at 1:43 | comment | added | efs | I found the following article by Francesco Severi (I don't know if he is the same person as the italian algebraic geometer) jstor.org/stable/29758044. At least he give details of Da Vinci's "mathematical work", so it may be relevant to your question. | |
| Oct 19, 2022 at 1:42 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | @DustinG.Mixon Often? What did he actually prove? AFAIK the abstract notion (and word) "group" is due to Galois 300 years after Leonardo's death. Of course "symmetry" was thousands of years older... | |
| Oct 19, 2022 at 1:39 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | Can you supply your sources? Wikipedia calls Leonardo a "polymath", not "mathematician". | |
| Oct 18, 2022 at 22:59 | comment | added | Dustin G. Mixon | The fact that $C_n$ and $D_n$ are the only finite subgroups of $O(2)$ is often attributed to da Vinci. | |
| Oct 18, 2022 at 22:27 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Leonardo says, "He gave several methods of squaring the circle, again using mechanical methods." Does that count? | |
| Oct 18, 2022 at 21:04 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | A graphical proof of Pythagoras' theorem attributed to Leonardo da Vinci has been debunked by Franz Lemmermeyer | |
| Oct 18, 2022 at 20:14 | comment | added | Vladimir Dotsenko | @NeilStrickland my thought exactly! It is also more likely that a meaningful answer will emerge there, I think. | |
| Oct 18, 2022 at 19:55 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | I suppose I am saying "mathematician" and "mathematics researcher" are not exactly synonymous. | |
| Oct 18, 2022 at 19:52 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | I think the term "mathematician" is used more generally than you suppose. A math enthusiast that spends an enormous amount of time learning, using, and appreciating pre-existing mathematics is still a mathematician in most peoples' eyes. Mandelbrot did not prove much (as far as I know) but he's still called a mathematician. In that regard, I think Da Vinci qualifies. | |
| Oct 18, 2022 at 19:44 | comment | added | Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda | Fermat never really proved very much in the way of theorem, result, or lemma either, as far as we’re aware (key word: proof). What constituted a “proof”, “mathematician” or even “mathematics” in the 1400s is vastly different from in the 2000s. | |
| Oct 18, 2022 at 19:17 | history | edited | Neil Strickland |
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| Oct 18, 2022 at 19:17 | comment | added | Neil Strickland | This would probably be more appropriate at hsm.stackexchange.com | |
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