Lorenzo Mascheroni, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lorenzo Mascheroni

Italian mathematician

Date of Birth: 13-May-1750

Place of Birth: Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 14-Jul-1800

Profession: writer, poet, physicist, mathematician

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Lorenzo Mascheroni (May 13, 1750 – July 14, 1800) was an Italian mathematician. He was born near Bergamo, Lombardy.
At first mainly interested in the humanities (poetry and Greek language), he eventually became professor of mathematics at Pavia. In his Geometria del Compasso (Pavia, 1797), he proved that any geometrical construction which can be done with compass and straightedge, can also be done with compasses alone.
However, the priority for this result (now known as the Mohr–Mascheroni theorem) belongs to the Dane Georg Mohr, who had previously published a proof in 1672 in an obscure book, Euclides Danicus.
This problem was the source of a musical composition called "Mascheroni Circles", performed by David Stutz on the album Iolet. In his Adnotationes ad calculum integrale Euleri (1790) he published a calculation of what is now known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant, usually denoted as ? {\displaystyle \gamma } (gamma). He died in Paris.