Gregorio Fontana
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Gregorio Fontana | |
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Born | Nogaredo, Italy | 7 December 1735
Died | 24 August 1803 Milan, Italy | (aged 67)
Nationality | Italian |
Known for | polar coordinates |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geometry |
Notable students | Pietro Paoli |
Gregorio Fontana, born Giovanni Battista Lorenzo Fontana (7 December 1735 – 24 August 1803) was an Italian mathematician and a religious of the Piarist order. He was chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia succeeding Roger Joseph Boscovich. He has been credited with the introduction of polar coordinates.[1][2]
His brother was the physicist Felice Fontana (1730–1805).
Works
- Analyseos sublimioris opuscula (in Latin). 1763.
- Delle altezze barometriche e di alcuni insigni paradossi relativi alle medesime. Bolzani, Giuseppe. 1771.
- Dissertazione idrodinamica. 1775.
- Disquisitiones physico-mathematicae (in Latin). 1780.
- Dissertazione sul computo dell'errore probabile nelle sperienze ed osservazioni. 1781.
- Ricerche sopra diversi punti concernenti l'analisi infinitesimale e la sua applicazione alla fisica. Comino, Baldassare. 1793.
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Dissertazione idrodinamica, 1775
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Ricerche sopra diversi punti concernenti l'analisi infinitesimale e la sua applicazione alla fisica, 1793
References
- ^ David Eugene Smith (1 June 1958). History of mathematics. Courier Dover Publications. pp. 324–. ISBN 978-0-486-20430-7. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
- ^ Marie-Nicolas Bouillet and Alexis Chassang Gregorio Fontana in Dictionnaire universel d’histoire et de géographie, 1878
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