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Joseph Louis Lagrange, French mathematician, 1833. Lagrange (1736-1813) is best known for his work on theoretical mechanics. In 1787 he published what is regarded as his masterpiece, 'Mecanique Analytique', a work consisting purely of algebraic operations without any explanatory diagrams or information. From The Gallery of Portraits. (London, 1833).