Johann Lantz

Johann Lantz or Lanz (1564 – 20 September 1638) was a German mathematician and Jesuit.^[1][2]

Institutionum arithmeticarum libri quatuor, 1619

Biography

Born in Tettnang on Lake Constance in 1564, he was admitted as novice in Landsberg in 1589.^[1] He became a professor of Hebrew at the University of Ingolstadt. After 1609-1610 he left his place to his pupil Christoph Scheiner^[2] and moved to the University of Munich.^[1] He died in Munich in 1638.

He wrote several works on mathematics. He analyzed the four genres of numbers, then the astronomic fractions.^[1] He is remembered also by Mario Bettini in his Aerarium philosophiae mathematicae (1648).^[1][3][4]

Works

• Lantz, Johann (1619). Institutionum arithmeticarum libri quatuor (in Latin). Monachii: Nikolaus Heinrich.