what did Bonaventura Cavalieri contribute to math?

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wat area of math

Answer 1

Check this web link out--

http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/cavalieri.html
This is an excerpt from the link

"He is chiefly remembered for his work on the problem "indivisibles." Building on the work of Archimedes, he investigated the method of construction by which areas and volumes of curved figures could be found. Cavalieri regarded an area as made up of an indefinite number of equidistant parallel line segments and a volume of an indefinite number of parallel plane areas. He called these elements the indivisibles of area and volume. Cavalieri's work was an important step toward the calculus, developed later in the seventeenth century by others, chiefly Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz...."


Here are some other links--

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Cavalieri/RouseBall/RB_Cavalieri.html

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cavalieri.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/27694/Bonaventura%20Cavalieri.htm

http://www.philosophybulgaria.org/Seminari/VarnenskaShkola2000/Vesselin%20Petrov.htm