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Guido Grandi

1671–1742

Italian monk, priest and mathematician at Pisa who studied the rose curves in the 1720s and named them rhodonea, and who wrote on the series 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + … that still bears his name.

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Patterns shaped by their work

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