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Mathematical Treasure: Alessandro Marchetti’s Problemata sex à Leidensi quodam surveyor Christophoro Sadlerio

Author(s): 
Frank J. Swetz (The Pennsylvania State University)

Alessandro Marchetti (1633–1714) was an Italian mathematician and humanist. In 1675 he published a collection of problems: Problemata sex à Leidensi quodam surveyor Christophoro Sadlerio missa ab hoc verò Germanis, Italisq. mathematicis proposita (Six problems sent to Christopher Sadlerius, a certain surveyor of Leyden, by this true German, Italian for mathematical purposes).

Title page from Alessandro Marchetti's 1675 Problemata sex à Leidensi quodam surveyor Christophoro Sadlerio.

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Frank J. Swetz (The Pennsylvania State University), "Mathematical Treasure: Alessandro Marchetti’s Problemata sex à Leidensi quodam surveyor Christophoro Sadlerio ," Convergence (February 2023)