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Nicola Fergola (1753-1824) was a mathematician from Italy professor in the university of Naples. == Life and work == Fergola studied in the Jesuit school and he went to the university of Naples in 1667,〔, page 305.〕 but he studied mathematics by his own because the university was only well versed in law and medicine. From 1770 he was teaching, by royal appointment, in the ''Liceo del Salvatore'', a school founded in the same building where the Jesuit school was (the Jesuit order was suppressed three years before).〔, MacTutor History of Mathematics.〕 In 1799, during the Napoleonic period, he lived in Capodimonte but, when the Borbonic monarchy was restated, he was appointed to the mathematics chair in the Neapolitan university.〔, page 306.〕 In 1821 he suffered a stroke which left him bound for the rest of his life.〔, page 307.〕 Fergola was one of the protagonists of an ideological quarrel among the Neapolitan scientists at the end of 18th century and the first half of 19th. In the field of mathematics, the quarrel was about the use of synthetic or analytic methods. These polemics were coincident with the politically conservative conceptions of the former and the progressive views of the followers of the analytic method.〔 is a complete exposition of the quarrel and his political and religious consequences, specially pages 697 and following.〕 Fergola and his student Vincenzo Flauti, were the supporters of the synthetic methods and they were opposed by the mathematicians of the Royal Military School, as Carlo Lauberg and others.〔, pages 127-128.〕 The Borbonic restoration in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, with his ultraconservative profile, made possible the maintenance of this school until the Risorgimento, but at the end of 19th century it was absolutely forgotten.〔, page 1500.〕 To see a taste of the quarrel, here are the words pronounced by Gioacchino Ventura di Raulica in the obituary of Nicola Fergola: The only work of Fergola is ''Prelezioni sui Principi matematici della filosofia naturale del cavalier Isacco Newton'', published in two volumes in 1792 and 1793. It is interesting to see the religious point of view of the Newtonian ''force'' concept. This religious conception is seen in all of Fergola's mathematical works. In 1839, was published Fergola's manuscript entitled (''Teorica de miracoli esposta con metodo dimostrativo'' ) in which Fergola tried to demonstrate the possibility of the miracles in a mathematical way: proposition, demonstration, theorem, lemma, scolium, i.e. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicola Fergola」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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