Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Joseph-Louis Lagrange ([laˈgrɑ̃ʒ]), born Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia[1][need quotation tae verify] or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier[2] (an aa reportit as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange[3] or Lagrangia[4]) (25 Januar 1736 – 10 Aprile 1813) wis an Italian Enlichtenment Era mathematician an astronomer.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange | |
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Joseph-Louis (Giuseppe Luigi), comte de Lagrange | |
Born | Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia 25 Januar 1736 Turin, Piedmont-Sardinie |
Dee'd | 10 Apryle 1813 Paris, Fraunce | (aged 77)
Residence | Piedmont Fraunce Proushie |
Citizenship | Piedmont-Sardinie French Empire |
Kent for | (see leet) Analytical mechanics Celestial mechanics Mathematical analysis Nummer theory |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics Mathematical pheesics |
Institutions | École polytechnique |
Academic advisors | Leonhard Euler Giovanni Battista Beccaria |
Doctoral students | Joseph Fourier Giovanni Plana Siméon Poisson |
In 1766, on the recommendation o Leonhard Euler an d'Alembert, Lagrange succeedit Euler as the director o mathematics at the Proushie Academy o Sciences in Berlin, Proushie, whaur he stayed for ower twenty years, producin vollums o wark an winnin several prizes o the French Academy o Sciences. Lagrange's treatise on analytical mechanics (Mécanique analytique, 4. ed., 2 vols. Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1788–89), written in Berlin an first published in 1788, offered the maist comprehensive treatment o clessical mechanics syne Newton an formed a basis for the development o mathematical pheesics in the nineteent century.
In 1787, at age 51, he muived frae Berlin tae Paris an becam a member o the French Academy o Sciences. He remeened in Fraunce till the end o his life. He wis signeeficantly involved in the decimalisation in Revolutionary Fraunce, becam the first professor o analysis at the École polytechnique upon its appenin in 1794, wis a foondin member o the Bureau des Longitudes, an becam Senator in 1799.
References
eedit- ↑ Briano, Giorgio (1861), Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia (in Italian), Torino: Unione Tipografica Editrice
- ↑ Angelo Genocchi. "Luigi Lagrange" (PDF). Il primo secolo della R. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (in Italian). Accademia delle Scienze di Torino. pp. 86–95. Retrieved 2 Januar 2014.
- ↑ Luigi Pepe. "Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 8 Julie 2012.
- ↑ [1] Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy.