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The jesuit order produced many brilliant encyclopedic scholars, Italy was the center of this order. This order should not be overtly vilified, they surely had gotten some amazing achievements. BTW, Ethiopia which defeated Italy in early1900s was not really an empty land but civilized by multiply waves of christian missionary since 16th century.
Despite its difficult gestation, the Jesuit mathematical schools, thanks to Christoph Clavius, gained great prestige in a short time. The Society of Jesus, therefore, provided a fertile ground for mathematical and astronomical studies. Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, many generations of scholars had been trained in schools of the Society of Jesus. Jesuit mathematicians were interested in scientific innovation and they contributed original research to all scientific disciplines of the time, in addition to playing a key role in spreading scientific knowledge. Many Jesuits have an important place in the history of mathematics. Their handbooks and scientific texts were used and highly regarded by the greatest European mathematicians. In this chapter, we give an account of the events that characterized the birth and the developments of the Jesuit mathematical education, by focusing mainly on European assistances in addition to a brief account of Jesuit mathematical missions in Asia.
Nordic people were wanted for their warrior culture, like Japan, as you might uphold the intellectual glories of Italy, I also uphold warrior cultures. Many recent math greand discoveries were also made by nordics like Bernhard Riemann, Niels Abel, Sophus Lie, Rolf Nevanlinna, also that famous playboy and math genius gaul Galois. Historically Italy is significant, but as to the recent breakthroughts, nordic people have one of the most important contributions.
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