"Before we take to sea we walk on land, before we create we must understand.”
Joseph Lagrange French born mathematician first put his feet on Italian soil. He mostly dealt with calculus an area in mathematics and he impressed a lot of people with his knowledge on this subject. Mr. Lagrange the director of mathematics in November 1766 took this post over by other mathematician Euler.
His interest in mathematics started in 1693 when he read a copy of Halley’s work on the use of algebra. Joseph was not only attracted to maths but also to physics where by the excellent teaching of Baccaria at college of Turin and where he made a decision to make mathematics a career.
Joseph made a discovery in 1754 a very important discovery that contributed substantially to the subject calculus of variations. The discovery made by Joseph was about the tautochrome. The mathematicians started to study this but did not receive the name calculus of variations, where Euler called it in 1766.
When Joseph made this discovery he send Euler his results on the tautochrome where it contained the methods he used. Euler received the letter and replied on the 6 of September where he was impressed by Joseph who was only 19 years of age, were appointed to professor of mathematics at the Royal Artillery School in Turin on September 1755. The young boy deserved this and he showed the world of mathematics that there is great talent in the originality of in death thinking.
Years later “Napoleon named Lagrange to the Legion of Honour and Count of the Empire in 1808. On 3 April 1813 he was awarded the Grand Croix of the Ordre Impérial de la Réunion and he died a week later.”
This shows us as students and scholars that age is nothing but a number and that the knowledge we have, we can use and discover great things.
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very interesting!
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