Bonaventura Cavalieri refined early Greek work on the concept of indivisibles. His work served as a stepping stone to the concept of infinitesimals and was the foundation of Isaac Newton's development of the calculus. Cavalieri was born in Milan,...

1598-1647 Italian Mathematician Praised by thinkers ranging from his friend Galileo (1564-1642) to twentieth-century writer Isaac Asimov, Bonaventura Cavalieri is best known for his work on the concept of indivisibles. This laid the foundation for the...

A mathematical principle formulated by Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647) that is fundamental to STEREOLOGY. Estimating the volume of cylinders and regularly shaped objects can be done using formulae based on π—the volume of a cylinder...

Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri (in Latin, Cavalerius) (1598 - November 30, 1647) was an Italian mathematician known for Cavalieri's principle, which states that the volumes of two objects are equal if the areas of their corresponding cross-sections are...

ANTHONY DI BONAVENTURA, piano At: the Tsai Performance Center, Boston University, Wednesday night Concert tickets grow more expensive every year, but Boston music lovers also rejoice in a virtually unparalleled schedule of free events. Wednesday night a substantial audience crowded into...

NEWTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Ronald Knudson, conductor, in a concert in Aquinas Jr. College Anthony di Bonaventura has played the Second Brahms Piano Concerto more often than any other, but in two decades of residence in Boston he had not performed it...