Joseph-Louis Lagrange
| Joseph-Louis Lagrange | |
|---|---|
Joseph-Louis (Giuseppe Luigi),
comte de Lagrange |
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| Born | Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia 25 January 1736 Turin, Piedmont-Sardinia |
| Died | 10 April 1813 (aged 77) Paris, France |
| Residence |
Piedmont France Prussia |
| Citizenship |
Piedmont-Sardinia French Empire |
| Fields |
Mathematics Mathematical physics |
| Institutions |
École Normale École Polytechnique |
| Alma mater | University of Turin |
| Academic advisors |
Leonhard Euler Giovanni Battista Beccaria |
| Notable students |
Joseph Fourier Giovanni Plana Siméon Poisson |
| Known for |
(see list) Analytical mechanics Celestial mechanics Mathematical analysis Number theory Pisano period |
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (/ləˈɡrɑːndʒ/ or /ləˈɡreɪndʒ/;French: [laˈgrɑ̃ʒ]), born Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier (also reported as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange or Lagrangia) (25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813), was an Italian Enlightenment Era mathematician and astronomer. He made significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.
In 1766, on the recommendation of Euler and d'Alembert, Lagrange succeeded Euler as the director of mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Prussia, where he stayed for over twenty years, producing volumes of work and winning several prizes of the French Academy of Sciences. Lagrange's treatise on analytical mechanics (Mécanique analytique, 4. ed., 2 vols. Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1788–89), written in Berlin and first published in 1788, offered the most comprehensive treatment of classical mechanics since Newton and formed a basis for the development of mathematical physics in the nineteenth century.
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