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> The largest, with 100,000 descendants, originated in 1415 under the auspices of Sigismondo Polcastro, a medical doctor in Italy When I start tracing my mathe
by GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
> The largest, with 100,000 descendants, originated in 1415 under the auspices of Sigismondo Polcastro, a medical doctor in Italy
When I start tracing my mathematical lineage back, I find a couple bifurcations and eventually get to Ulrich Zasius (1501), Cristoforo Landino (late 1400s) Moses Perez (same), Elissaeus Jusaeus (late 1300s) and Manuel Bryennios (early 1300s): http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=184632 http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=184632 who has 128k descendants.