Born in 1736 on the street which today bears his name (at number 29), Giuseppe Lagrange was a student of Beccaria and a teacher at the Royal Military School of Artillery in Turin. Frederic of Prussia called him to Berlin in 1766, and he later moved to Paris in 1787 to teach at the polytechnic school there. He died there in 1813. To see what he looked like, you can admire his statue in the piazza named after him. |
