Gregorio Fontana
For the Italian radical of the same name, see Gregorio Fontana (radical).
| Gregorio Fontana | |
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| Born |
7 December 1735 Nogaredo, Italy |
| Died |
24 August 1803 (aged 67) Milan, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Fields | Geometry |
| Known for | polar coordinates |
Gregorio Fontana (7 December 1735 – 24 August 1803) was an Italian mathematician. 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).
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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