Balanos Vasilopoulos belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Balanos Vasilopoulos as Greek priest and educator, mathematician.
Balanos Vasilopoulos was born at Ioannina in 1694. His recorded nationality is Turkey.
The seventeenth century produced the calculus and with it a dispute over priority that shaped mathematics for a century.
The recorded fields of work are mathematician.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
That the work was done from Turkey matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Balanos Vasilopoulos died in 1760, aged 66. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Fields: mathematician
