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Joseph-Louis Lagrange

1736 - 1813

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Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier; 25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813), also reported as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange or Lagrangia, was an Italian and naturalized French mathematician, physicist 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 Leonhard 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 many volumes of work and winning several prizes of the French Academy of Sciences. Lagrange's treatise on analytical mechanics (Mécanique analytique, 4. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph-Louis Lagrange is the 14th most popular mathematician (up from 25th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Italy (up from 152nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Mathematician.

Lagrange was most famous for his work in mathematics. He is best known for his work on the four-square theorem, which he proved in 1770.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph-Louis Lagrange ranks 14 out of 1,004. Before him are Ada Lovelace, Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, John Forbes Nash Jr., Bernhard Riemann, and Hypatia. After him are Al-Biruni, Pierre de Fermat, Bertrand Russell, Jacob Bernoulli, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and Henri Poincaré.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, Joseph-Louis Lagrange ranks 2. Before him is James Watt. After him are Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Rama I, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, James Macpherson, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. Among people deceased in 1813, Joseph-Louis Lagrange ranks 1. After him are Mikhail Kutuzov, Józef Poniatowski, George Shaw, André Grétry, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, Robert R. Livingston, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Christoph Martin Wieland, Jean-Andoche Junot, and Sophia Magdalena of Denmark.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Joseph-Louis Lagrange ranks 70 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Leo XI (1535), Pope Pius VII (1742), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Pope Leo X (1475), Silvio Berlusconi (1936), and Pope Leo XII (1760). After him are Lorenzo de' Medici (1449), Titus (41), Mark Antony (-83), Saint Lucy (283), Lucretius (-94), and Catherine de' Medici (1519).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Joseph-Louis Lagrange ranks 3. Before him are Archimedes (-287), and Fibonacci (1170). After him are Gerolamo Cardano (1501), Luca Pacioli (1445), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718), Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), Archytas (-428), Philolaus (-470), Giuseppe Peano (1858), Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), and Lodovico Ferrari (1522).

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