Johann Lantz

Johann Lantz or Lanz (1564 – 20 September 1638) was a German mathematician and Jesuit.

[1][2] Born in Tettnang on Lake Constance in 1564, he was admitted as novice in Landsberg in 1589.

After 1609-1610 he left his place to his pupil Christoph Scheiner[2] and moved to the University of Munich.

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).