Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange was an 18th-century mathematician and astronomer renowned for his foundational contributions to analysis, number theory, and classical mechanics, including the formulation of Lagrangian mechanics.
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| Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
French person
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Italian person ⓘ astronomer ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur
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Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur
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| birthName |
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia
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| buriedAt | Panthéon, Paris ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Kingdom of Sardinia ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1736-01-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1813-04-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Turin
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College of Turin
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| era |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
astronomy
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classical mechanics ⓘ mathematical analysis ⓘ mathematics ⓘ number theory ⓘ |
| influenced |
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ William Rowan Hamilton ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Isaac Newton
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Leonhard Euler ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Lagrange interpolation polynomial
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Lagrange multipliers ⓘ Lagrange points in celestial mechanics ⓘ Lagrange's four-square theorem ⓘ Lagrange's mean value theorem ⓘ Lagrange's theorem in group theory ⓘ Lagrangian mechanics ⓘ Mécanique analytique ⓘ contributions to the calculus of variations ⓘ work on planetary motion and stability of the solar system ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Berlin Academy of Sciences
Académie des Sciences ⓘ
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French Academy of Sciences
Royal Society ⓘ Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| name | Joseph-Louis Lagrange self-link ⓘ |
| nationality |
French
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Italian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mécanique analytique
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Théorie des fonctions analytiques ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Turin ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Paris ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of mathematics at the Berlin Academy of Sciences
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member of the Académie des Sciences ⓘ senator of the First French Empire ⓘ |
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia
subject surface form:
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
subject surface form:
Joseph Fourier