Stanislav Vydra

Stanislav Vydra (13 November 1741 in Hradec Králové – 2 December 1804 in Prague) was a Bohemian Jesuit priest, writer, and mathematician.

After two years in Brno, he studied philosophy and mathematics from 1762 to 1764 at Charles University.

In 1772, Vydra was appointed professor of mathematics in Charles University in Prague.

Stanislav Vydra taught elementary mathematics, a compulsory subject for the students at the philosophical faculty since 1752.

He published “Elementa calcvli differentialis et integralis” in 1783, which became a well-known calculus textbook in Prague.