Lagrange — Erosophia Encyclopedia

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Lagrange — Mathematician, author of the Mécanique analytique, died in 1813

Born Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia, eldest of eleven children of a family of French origin ruined by speculation, professor at the Turin artillery school at nineteen, he succeeded Euler in Berlin in 1766 and stayed twenty years before settling in Paris in 1787, where his Mécanique analytique appeared. He worked on the metric system, taught at the École polytechnique, took French nationality in 1802 and was buried in the Panthéon. (Editorial synthesis)

Lagrange was born on 25 January 1736. (source: Sénat)

Lagrange was born in Turin. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Lagrange died on 10 April 1813. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Lagrange died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

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