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Cavalieri, Francesco Bonaventura

(fränchās´kō bōnävānt

´rä kävälyā´rē) , 1598—1647, Italian mathematician, a Jesuit priest. Professor at Bologna from 1629, he invented the method of indivisibles (1635) that foreshadowed integral calculus.