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Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 25 January 1736
- Died
- 10 April 1813
- Place of birth
- Turin
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Joseph-Louis
- Family name
- Lagrange
- Field of work
- mathematical analysis, number theory, analytical mechanics, celestial mechanics, calculus, mathematics, astronomy
- Occupation
- mathematician, astronomer, physicist, politician, writer, university teacher, surveying engineer, count
- Citizenship
- France, Kingdom of Sardinia
- Native language
- Italian
- Awards
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Fellow of the Royal Society, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Reunion, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
- birth name
- Giuseppe Ludovico Lagrangia
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Astronomers: A Biographical Reference, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
- doctoral advisor
- Giovanni Battista Beccaria
- doctoral student
- Siméon Denis Poisson, Giovanni Plana, Joseph Fourier
- educated at
- University of Turin
- employer
- École Normale Supérieure, Royal Academy of Turin, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, École polytechnique
- has works in the collection
- ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
- influenced by
- Leonhard Euler
- member of
- Royal Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Turin, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- name in native language
- Giuseppe Ludovico Lagrangia
- noble title
- Count of the Empire
- place of burial
- Panthéon
- relative
- Pierre Charles Le Monnier
- student
- Joseph Fourier, Siméon Denis Poisson
- student of
- Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Leonhard Euler
- topic's main category
- Category:Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- writing language
- French
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