| Gregorio Fontana | |
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| Born | (1735-12-07)7 December 1735 Nogaredo, Italy |
| Died | 24 August 1803(1803-08-24) (aged 67) Milan, Italy |
| 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.
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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