Person: Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo

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Giovanni Plana was an Italian mathematician who worked on astronomy, integrals, elliptic functions, heat, electrostatics and geodesy.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 6 November 1781, Voghera (now Italy). Died 20 January 1864, Turin, Italy.

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Astronomy, Origin Italy


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  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive