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https://doi.org/10.54937/ssf.2023.22.5.19-30

Autor: Jaroslav Beránek

In: Studia Scientifica Facultatis Paedagogicae Universitas Catholica Ružomberok

ISSN: 1336-2232

Ročník: 22

Číslo: 5

Strany: 19-30

Rok vydania: 2023

Vydavateľ: VERBUM – vydavateľstvo Katolíckej univerzity v Ružomberku

Abstract: A famous Italian scholar Giovanni Evangelista Torricelli is most famous for his physical discoveries. Nevertheless, nowadays it is less known that he dealt with mathematics as well. This article is devoted to his several mathematics results. After a short historical introduction, the author gives the construction of Torricelli’s point in a triangle; further he describes an interesting geometrical figure, Torricelli’s trumpet, and its analogy, created by rotation of Cissoid of Diocles.

Keywords: Giovanni Torricelli. Torricelli’s point. Torricelli’s trumpet. cissoid of Diocles.

Citácia:

BERÁNEK, Jaroslav. Giovanni Torricelli jako matematik. In: Studia Scientifica Facultatis Paedagogicae Universitas Catholica Ružomberok [online]. Ružomberok: VERBUM – vydavateľstvo Katolíckej univerzity v Ružomberku, 2023, 22 (5), s. 19-30. ISSN 1336-2232. Dostupné na internete: https://doi.org/10.54937/ssf.2023.22.5.19-30