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Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana

1781 - 1864

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Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (6 November 1781 – 20 January 1864) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician. He is considered one of the premiere Italian scientists of his age. The crater Plana on the Moon is named in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana is the 343rd most popular mathematician (up from 573rd in 2019), the 1,959th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,070th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana ranks 343 out of 1,004Before him are Joseph Diez Gergonne, Lev Pontryagin, Yi Xing, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, Rudolf E. Kálmán, and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro. After him are Felix Bernstein, Viggo Brun, Klára Dán von Neumann, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Giambattista Benedetti, and Gaston Julia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana ranks 21Before him are Joseph Karl Stieler, Mauro Giuliani, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, William Wyatt Bibb, Johann Baptist von Spix, and Karl Christian Friedrich Krause. After him are Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, Louis-Mathieu Molé, François Habeneck, Andrés Bello, Adolphe Marbot, and Valentín Gómez Farías. Among people deceased in 1864, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana ranks 25Before him are Konstanty Kalinowski, David Sassoon, Juan José Flores, Hong Tianguifu, Princess Hildegard of Bavaria, and John Hanning Speke. After him are Christian Ludwig Brehm, George M. Dallas, Aimable Pélissier, Karl Ernst Claus, Stephen Foster, and Henryk Dembiński.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana ranks 1,959 out of 5,161Before him are Emilio Colombo (1920), Cecilia Bartoli (1966), John II, Marquis of Montferrat (1321), Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853), Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (1947), and Giorgio Chinaglia (1947). After him are Carlo Sforza (1872), Lina Cavalieri (1874), Isa Miranda (1909), Salvatore Ferragamo (1898), Gianfranco Ravasi (1942), and Niccolò de' Conti (1395).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana ranks 28Before him are Jacopo Riccati (1676), Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750), Enrico Bombieri (1940), Pietro Cataldi (1552), Eugenio Beltrami (1835), and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853). After him are Giambattista Benedetti (1530), Francesco Maurolico (1494), Ostilio Ricci (1540), Ernesto Cesàro (1859), Daniele Barbaro (1513), and Guido Fubini (1879).