Gregorio Fontana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian mathematician
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Place of Birth: Nogaredo, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
About 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.His brother was the physicist Felice Fontana (1730–1805).
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