Plana

Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana

Born: 6 Nov 1781 in Voghera, Italy
Died: 20 Jan 1864 in Turin, Italy

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Plana studied in Paris and was taught by Lagrange. Fourier tried to find a post for him in Grenoble but he returned to Italy. He obtained a chair in astronomy at Turin in 1811 on Lagrange's recommendation and remained there for the rest of his life.

Topics Plana worked on, in addition to astronomy, were integrals, elliptic functions, heat, electrostatics and geodesy.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. G Agostinelli, Della vita e delle opere di Giovanni Plana, Atti dell'Accademia delle scienze 99 (1964-65), 1177-1199. 
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