Johann Christoph Heilbronner



Johann Christoph Heilbronner (13 March 1706, in Ulm – 17 January 1745 (or c.1747), in Leipzig) was a German mathematical historian (Mathematikhistoriker) and theologian.

Literary works

 * Versuch einer Geschichte der Mathematik and Arithmetik, 1739
 * Historia matheseos universae a mundo condito ad seculum post Chr. Nat. XVI (or Historia matheseos universae; ), 1742

These two books are the first books that named and used the phrase "mathematical history (Geschichte der Mathematik, Historia matheseos)".