| Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel | |
| Birth Date: | c. 1690 |
| Birth Place: | Eger, Kingdom of Bohemia |
| Death Place: | Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Field: | Mathematics |
| Work Institutions: | University of Prague, Bohemia University of Breslau, Prussia (now University of Wrocław, Poland) |
Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (c. 1690 - 11 July 1766) was a Bohemian mathematician.
Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (referred to in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich as Heinrich Mühlwenzel)[1] was a member of the Jesuit order and a professor of mathematics at the University of Prague. He was of minority German ethnicity in western Czech border. He was a skilled optician who ground lenses for his own telescopes. Mühlwenzel is notable because his mathematical "descendants," which include Johann Radon, number more than 10,000.[2]
In 1736 he published Fundamenta mathematica ex arithmetica, geometria et trigonometria.