Ignatz Mühlwenzel

Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel was a Czech mathematician.

Life

Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel 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.
In 1736, he published Fundamenta mathematica ex arithmetica, geometria et trigonometria.