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Anders Johan Lexell
Russian mathematician (1740-1784)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 24 December 1740
- Died
- 11 December 1784, 30 November 1784
- Place of birth
- Turku
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Anders
- Family name
- Lexell
- Father
- Jonas Lexell
- Field of work
- astronomy, trigonometry, mathematics
- Occupation
- astronomer, mathematician, physicist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Sweden, Russian Empire
- Native language
- Swedish
- academic thesis
- Aphorismi mathematico-physici
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Russian Biographical Dictionary, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, Astronomers: A Biographical Reference
- doctoral advisor
- Jakob Gadolin
- educated at
- Royal Academy of Turku
- influenced by
- Leonhard Euler
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Turin
- notable work
- Disquisitio de inuestiganda vera quantitate parallaxeos solis, ex transitu Veneris ante discum solis anno 1769, cui accedunt animaduersiones in tractatum, Lexell's Comet, Lexell's theorem
- place of burial
- Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
- residence
- Sweden, Russian Empire
- significant person
- Leonhard Euler
- student of
- Leonhard Euler, Jakob Gadolin
- work location
- Saint Petersburg, Turku
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