Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana was an Italian astronomer and mathematician, born in Voghera on 6 November 1781. His father sent him to Grenoble in 1796 to finish his schooling, and in 1800 he entered the École Polytechnique in Paris, where Lagrange was among his teachers. He returned to Italy in 1803 to teach at the artillery school in Piedmont and from 1811 held the chair of astronomy at the University of Turin, teaching there for the rest of his life. Besides astronomy he worked on integrals, elliptic functions, heat, electrostatics and geodesy, and in 1820 shared a prize for lunar tables. He died in Turin on 20 January 1864.
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was an Italian astronomer and mathematician.
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Plana, although a young man at the time, was certainly one of those who embraced this new way.
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Topics Plana worked on, in addition to astronomy, were integrals, elliptic functions, heat, electrostatics and geodesy.
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