Ambrogio Soldani is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Ambrogio Soldani as Italian naturalist and mathematician.
Ambrogio Soldani was born at Pratovecchio in 1736.
This was the age of analysis, when the calculus was pushed hard and its foundations were not yet secure.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
Ambrogio Soldani died in 1808, aged 72. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
