25/1/07

Joseph-Louis Lagrange


Born January 25, 1736, Turin, Sardinia-Piedmont [Italy]

Died April 10, 1813, Paris, France

Mathematician who made great contributions to number theory and to analytic and celestial mechanics. His most important book, Mécanique analytique (1788; “Analytic Mechanics”), was the basis for all later work in this field.

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