Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician, Academic
1736 – 1813
Who was Joseph-Louis Lagrange?
Joseph-Louis Lagrange 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, 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.
In 1787, at age 51, he moved from Berlin to Paris and became a member of the French Academy. He remained in France until the end of his life. He was significantly involved in the decimalisation in Revolutionary France, became the first professor of analysis at the École Polytechnique upon its opening in 1794, founding member of the Bureau des Longitudes and Senator in 1799.
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- Born
- Jan 25, 1736
Turin - Also known as
- J. L. Lagrange
- Parents
- Spouses
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Agnosticism
- Nationality
- France
- Italy
- Prussia
- Profession
- Education
- École Polytechnique
- Lived in
- Sardinia
- Piedmont
- Died
- Apr 10, 1813
Paris - Resting place
- Panthéon, Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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