Gregorio Fontana

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]

For the Italian radical of the same name, see Gregorio Fontana (radical).
Gregorio Fontana
Born(1735-12-07)7 December 1735
Nogaredo, Italy
Died24 August 1803(1803-08-24) (aged 67)
Milan, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forpolar coordinates
Scientific career
FieldsGeometry
Notable studentsPietro Paoli

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.
  • Dissertazione idrodinamica, 1775
  • Ricerche sopra diversi punti concernenti l'analisi infinitesimale e la sua applicazione alla fisica, 1793

References
  1. David Eugene Smith (1 June 1958). History of mathematics. Courier Dover Publications. pp. 324–. ISBN 978-0-486-20430-7. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
  2. Marie-Nicolas Bouillet and Alexis Chassang Gregorio Fontana in Dictionnaire universel d’histoire et de géographie, 1878


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