Jurij Vega
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Jurij Bartolomej Vega (also correct Veha; official ; ) (March 23, 1754 – September 26, 1802) was a Slovene mathematician
, physicist
and artillery
officer.
east of Ljubljana
in Slovenia
, Jurij was 6 years old when his father Jernej Veha died. Jurij (or George in English
) was educated first in Moravče and later in 1767 attended high school for six years in Ljubljana, studying Latin, Greek
, religion
, German, history
, geography
, science
, and mathematics
. At that time there were about 500 students there. He was a schoolfellow of Anton Tomaž Linhart
, a Slovenian writer and historian. Jurij completed high school when he was 19, in 1773. After completing Lyceum
in Ljubljana he became a navigational engineer. Tentamen philosophicum, a list of questions for his comprehensive examination, was preserved and is available in the Mathematical Library in Ljubljana. The problems cover logic
, algebra
, metaphysics
, geometry
, trigonometry
, geodesy
, stereometry, geometry
of curve
s, ballistics
, and general and special physics
.
noble from České Budějovice
who was 16 at that time.
Vega participated in several wars. In 1788 he served under Austrian Imperial Field-Marshal Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717–1790) in a campaign against the Turks
at Belgrade
. His command of several mortar
batteries contributed considerably to the fall of the Belgrade fortress. Between 1793 and 1797 he fought French Revolution
aries under the command of Austrian General Dagobert-Sigismond de Wurmser (1724–1797) with the European coalition on the Austrian side. He fought at Fort Louis
, Mannheim
, Mainz
, Wiesbaden
, Kehl
, and Dietz
. In 1795 he had two 30-pound (14 kilogram) mortars cast, with conically drilled bases and a greater charge, for a firing range up to 3000 metres (3300 yards). The old 60 lb (27 kg) mortars had a range of only 1800 m (2000 yd).
In September 1802 Jurij Vega was reported missing. After a few days' search his body was found. The police report concluded that it was an accident. However, the true cause of his death remains a mystery, but it is believed that he died on 1802-09-26 in Nußdorf
on the Danube
, near the Austria
n capital, Vienna
. There is a well-backed theory about his death: he loved horses, and apparently he found out a miller owned a magnificent one. When he went to the miller to negotiate about the price, the miller, upon seeing his Lord and military insignia, took interest in the money he was carrying with him, murdered him; one of Jurij's tools (compass) was found in the mill one year after his disappearance and it had "J V" initials on it.
tables. The first one appeared in 1783. Much later, in 1797 it was followed by a second volume that contained a collection of integrals and other useful formulae. His Handbook, which was originally published in 1793, was later translated into several languages and appeared in over 100 issues. His major work was Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus
(Treasury of all Logarithms) that was first published 1794 in Leipzig
. This table was actually based on Adriaan Vlacq
's tables, but corrected a number of errors and extended the logarithms of trigonometric functions for the small angles. An engineer, Franc Allmer, honourable senator of the Technical university of Graz
, has found Vega's logarithmic tables with 10 decimal
places in the Museum of Carl Friedrich Gauss in Göttingen
. Gauss
used this work frequently and he has written in it several calculations. Gauss has also found some of Vega's errors in the calculations in the range of numbers, of which there are more than a million. A copy of Vega's Thesaurus belonging to the private collection of the British mathematician and computing pioneer Charles Babbage
(1791–1871) is preserved at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
.
Over the years Vega wrote a four volume textbook Vorlesungen über die Mathematik (Lectures about Mathematics). Volume I appeared in 1782 when he was 28 years old, Volume II in 1784, Volume III in 1788 and Volume IV in 1800. His textbooks also contain interesting tables: for instance, in Volume II one can find closed form expressions for sines of multiples of 3 degrees
, written in a form easy to work with.
Vega wrote at least six scientific papers. On August 20, 1789 Vega achieved a world record when he calculated pi
to 140 places, of which the first 126 were correct.http://www.southernct.edu/~sandifer/Ed/History/Preprints/Talks/Jurij%20Vega/Vega%20math%20script.pdf This calculation he proposed to the Russian Academy of Sciences
in Saint Petersburg
(Санкт Петербург) in the booklet V. razprava (The fifth discussion), where he had found with his calculating method an error on the 113th place from the estimation of Thomas Fantet de Lagny (1660–1734) from 1719 of 127 places. Vega retained his record 52 years until 1841 and his method is mentioned still today. His article was not published by the Academy until six years later, in 1795. Vega had improved John Machin
's formula from 1706:
with his formula, which is equal to Euler's
formula from 1755:
and which converges faster than Machin's formula. He had checked his result with the similar Hutton's formula:
He had developed the second term in the series only once.
Although he worked in the subjects of ballistics, physics and astronomy
, his major contributions are to the mathematics of the second half of the 18th century.
In 1781 Vega tried to push further his idea in the Austrian Habsburg monarchy
about the usage of the decimal metric system
of units. His idea was not accepted, but it was introduced later under the emperor Franz Josef I in 1871.
Jurij Vega was a member of the Academy of Practical Sciences in Mainz, the Physical and Mathematical Society of Erfurt
, the Bohemian Scientific Society in Prague
, and the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin
. He was also an associate member of the British Scientific Society in Göttingen
. He was awarded the Order of Maria Theresa
on May 11, 1796. In 1800 Jurij Vega obtained a title of hereditary baron including the right to his own coat of arms.
Post of Slovenia has issued a stamp honouring Jurij Vega and the National Bank of Slovenia has issued a 50 tolar
banknote in his honour.
An asteroid
14966 Jurijvega
, discovered on July 30, 1997, is named after him.
Baron
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Jurij Bartolomej Vega (also correct Veha; official ; ) (March 23, 1754 – September 26, 1802) was a Slovene mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
, physicist
Physicist
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and artillery
Artillery
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officer.
Early life
Born to a farmers family in the small village of ZagoricaZagorica pri Dolskem
Zagorica pri Dolskem is a dispersed settlement in the hills northeast of Dolsko in the Dol pri Ljubljani Municipality in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.Zagorica was the birthplace of the Slovene mathematician Jurij Vega.-External links:*...
east of Ljubljana
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in Slovenia
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, Jurij was 6 years old when his father Jernej Veha died. Jurij (or George in English
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) was educated first in Moravče and later in 1767 attended high school for six years in Ljubljana, studying Latin, Greek
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, religion
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, German, history
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, geography
Geography
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, science
Science
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, and mathematics
Mathematics
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. At that time there were about 500 students there. He was a schoolfellow of Anton Tomaž Linhart
Anton Tomaž Linhart
Anton Tomaž Linhart was a Slovene playwright and historian, best known as the author of the first comedy in Slovene, Županova Micka...
, a Slovenian writer and historian. Jurij completed high school when he was 19, in 1773. After completing Lyceum
Lyceum
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in Ljubljana he became a navigational engineer. Tentamen philosophicum, a list of questions for his comprehensive examination, was preserved and is available in the Mathematical Library in Ljubljana. The problems cover logic
Logic
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, algebra
Algebra
Algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning the study of the rules of operations and relations, and the constructions and concepts arising from them, including terms, polynomials, equations and algebraic structures...
, metaphysics
Metaphysics
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, geometry
Geometry
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, trigonometry
Trigonometry
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, geodesy
Geodesy
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, stereometry, geometry
Geometry
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of curve
Curve
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s, ballistics
Ballistics
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, and general and special physics
Physics
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.
Military service
Jurij left Ljubljana five years after graduation and entered military service in 1780 as Professor of Mathematics at the Artillery School in Vienna. At that time he started to sign his last name as Vega and no longer Veha. When Jurij was 33 he married Josefa Svoboda (Jožefa Swoboda) (1771–1800), a CzechCzech Republic
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noble from České Budějovice
Ceské Budejovice
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who was 16 at that time.
Vega participated in several wars. In 1788 he served under Austrian Imperial Field-Marshal Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717–1790) in a campaign against the Turks
Ottoman Empire
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at Belgrade
Belgrade
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. His command of several mortar
Mortar (weapon)
A mortar is an indirect fire weapon that fires explosive projectiles known as bombs at low velocities, short ranges, and high-arcing ballistic trajectories. It is typically muzzle-loading and has a barrel length less than 15 times its caliber....
batteries contributed considerably to the fall of the Belgrade fortress. Between 1793 and 1797 he fought French Revolution
French Revolution
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aries under the command of Austrian General Dagobert-Sigismond de Wurmser (1724–1797) with the European coalition on the Austrian side. He fought at Fort Louis
Fort-Louis
Fort-Louis is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.It acquired its name and its principal raison d'être from a 17th century fort...
, Mannheim
Mannheim
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, Mainz
Mainz
Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
, Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden
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, Kehl
Kehl
Kehl is a town in southwestern Germany in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the river Rhine, directly opposite the French city of Strasbourg.-History:...
, and Dietz
Dietz
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. In 1795 he had two 30-pound (14 kilogram) mortars cast, with conically drilled bases and a greater charge, for a firing range up to 3000 metres (3300 yards). The old 60 lb (27 kg) mortars had a range of only 1800 m (2000 yd).
In September 1802 Jurij Vega was reported missing. After a few days' search his body was found. The police report concluded that it was an accident. However, the true cause of his death remains a mystery, but it is believed that he died on 1802-09-26 in Nußdorf
Nußdorf, Vienna
Nußdorf was a separate municipality until 1892 and is today a suburb of Vienna in the 19th district of Döbling.- Location :Nußdorf lies on both banks of the Nußbach , where the brook meets the Danube Canal...
on the Danube
Danube
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, near the Austria
Austria
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n capital, Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
. There is a well-backed theory about his death: he loved horses, and apparently he found out a miller owned a magnificent one. When he went to the miller to negotiate about the price, the miller, upon seeing his Lord and military insignia, took interest in the money he was carrying with him, murdered him; one of Jurij's tools (compass) was found in the mill one year after his disappearance and it had "J V" initials on it.
Mathematical accomplishments
Vega published a series of books of logarithmLogarithm
The logarithm of a number is the exponent by which another fixed value, the base, has to be raised to produce that number. For example, the logarithm of 1000 to base 10 is 3, because 1000 is 10 to the power 3: More generally, if x = by, then y is the logarithm of x to base b, and is written...
tables. The first one appeared in 1783. Much later, in 1797 it was followed by a second volume that contained a collection of integrals and other useful formulae. His Handbook, which was originally published in 1793, was later translated into several languages and appeared in over 100 issues. His major work was Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus
Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus
Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus, a large logarithm table handbook, was the main work of Slovenian mathematician Jurij Vega. It was first published in 1794 in Leipzig. Its 90th edition was published in 1924....
(Treasury of all Logarithms) that was first published 1794 in Leipzig
Leipzig
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. This table was actually based on Adriaan Vlacq
Adriaan Vlacq
Adriaan Vlacq was a Dutch book publisher and author of mathematical tables. Born in Gouda, Vlacq published a table of logarithms from 1 to 100,000 to 10 decimal places in 1628 in his Arithmetica logarithmica. This table extended Henry Briggs' original tables which only covered the values...
's tables, but corrected a number of errors and extended the logarithms of trigonometric functions for the small angles. An engineer, Franc Allmer, honourable senator of the Technical university of Graz
Graz
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, has found Vega's logarithmic tables with 10 decimal
Decimal
The decimal numeral system has ten as its base. It is the numerical base most widely used by modern civilizations....
places in the Museum of Carl Friedrich Gauss in Göttingen
Göttingen
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. Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum...
used this work frequently and he has written in it several calculations. Gauss has also found some of Vega's errors in the calculations in the range of numbers, of which there are more than a million. A copy of Vega's Thesaurus belonging to the private collection of the British mathematician and computing pioneer Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage, FRS was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer...
(1791–1871) is preserved at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
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.
Over the years Vega wrote a four volume textbook Vorlesungen über die Mathematik (Lectures about Mathematics). Volume I appeared in 1782 when he was 28 years old, Volume II in 1784, Volume III in 1788 and Volume IV in 1800. His textbooks also contain interesting tables: for instance, in Volume II one can find closed form expressions for sines of multiples of 3 degrees
Exact trigonometric constants
Exact constant expressions for trigonometric values are sometimes useful, mainly for simplifying solutions into radical forms which allow further simplification....
, written in a form easy to work with.
Vega wrote at least six scientific papers. On August 20, 1789 Vega achieved a world record when he calculated pi
Pi
' is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter. is approximately equal to 3.14. Many formulae in mathematics, science, and engineering involve , which makes it one of the most important mathematical constants...
to 140 places, of which the first 126 were correct.http://www.southernct.edu/~sandifer/Ed/History/Preprints/Talks/Jurij%20Vega/Vega%20math%20script.pdf This calculation he proposed to the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
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in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
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(Санкт Петербург) in the booklet V. razprava (The fifth discussion), where he had found with his calculating method an error on the 113th place from the estimation of Thomas Fantet de Lagny (1660–1734) from 1719 of 127 places. Vega retained his record 52 years until 1841 and his method is mentioned still today. His article was not published by the Academy until six years later, in 1795. Vega had improved John Machin
John Machin
John Machin, , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, is best known for developing a quickly converging series for Pi in 1706 and using it to compute Pi to 100 decimal places.Machin's formula is:...
's formula from 1706:
with his formula, which is equal to Euler's
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion...
formula from 1755:
and which converges faster than Machin's formula. He had checked his result with the similar Hutton's formula:
He had developed the second term in the series only once.
Although he worked in the subjects of ballistics, physics and astronomy
Astronomy
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, his major contributions are to the mathematics of the second half of the 18th century.
In 1781 Vega tried to push further his idea in the Austrian Habsburg monarchy
Habsburg
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about the usage of the decimal metric system
Metric system
The metric system is an international decimalised system of measurement. France was first to adopt a metric system, in 1799, and a metric system is now the official system of measurement, used in almost every country in the world...
of units. His idea was not accepted, but it was introduced later under the emperor Franz Josef I in 1871.
Jurij Vega was a member of the Academy of Practical Sciences in Mainz, the Physical and Mathematical Society of Erfurt
Erfurt
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, the Bohemian Scientific Society in Prague
Prague
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, and the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin
Berlin
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. He was also an associate member of the British Scientific Society in Göttingen
Göttingen
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. He was awarded the Order of Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa of Austria
Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma...
on May 11, 1796. In 1800 Jurij Vega obtained a title of hereditary baron including the right to his own coat of arms.
Post of Slovenia has issued a stamp honouring Jurij Vega and the National Bank of Slovenia has issued a 50 tolar
Slovenian tolar
The tolar was the currency of Slovenia from 1991 until the introduction of the euro on 1 January 2007. It was subdivided into 100 stotins...
banknote in his honour.
An asteroid
Asteroid
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14966 Jurijvega
14966 Jurijvega
14966 Jurijvega is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 30, 1997 by Herman Mikuž at the Črni Vrh Observatory in Slovenia.On May 9, 2001 it was named after baron Jurij Vega, a late 18th-century Slovene mathematician and physicist....
, discovered on July 30, 1997, is named after him.
External links
- Jurij Vega on the Slovenian 50 Tolars banknote.
- University of St AndrewsUniversity of St AndrewsThe University of St Andrews, informally referred to as "St Andrews", is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The university is situated in the town of St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It was founded between...
' page on Vega: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Vega.html - Vega and his time