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Rudolff [Rudolf], Christoff
- 1. Dates
- Born: fl
- Died: --
- Dateinfo: Dates Certain
- Lifespan:
- 2. Father
- Occupation: Unknown
- No information on financial status.
- 3. Nationality
- Birth: Jauer, Silesia [now Poland]
- Career: Vienna, Austria
- Death: Vienna, Austria
- 4. Education
- Schooling: Vienna
- He learned algebra from Grammateus at the University of Vienna, probably some time between 1517 and 1521. With information so sketchy, anything is possible, but no degree is mentioned.
- 5. Religion
- Affiliation: Catholic (assumed).
- 6. Scientific Disciplines
- Primary: Mathematics
- 7. Means of Support
- Primary: Schoolmastering
- In Vienna, he supported himself by giving private lessons. Though not affiliated with the university, he was able to use its library.
- 8. Patronage
- Type: Eccesiastic Official
- He dedicated his Coss (1525) to the Bishop of Brixen (now Bressanone, Italy).
- 9. Technological Involvement
- Type: Applied Mathematics
- His Künstliche Rechnung mit der Ziffer und mit den Zahlpfennigen (1526) contains an "Exempelbüchlein" which contains examples of the use of mathematics in commerce and manufacturing.
- 10. Scientific Societies
- Memberships: None
- Sources
- Cantor, Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, 29, 571-2.
- Compiled by:
- Richard S. Westfall
- Department of History and Philosophy of Science
- Indiana University
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