# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gregorio-fontana
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:48:19.108Z

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name: "Gregorio Fontana"
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description: "Gregorio Fontana, born Giovanni Battista Lorenzo Fontana was an Italian mathematician and a religious of the Piarist order. He was chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia, succeeding Roger Joseph Boscovich. He has been credited with the introduction of polar coordinates. Though an abbot, he was sympathetic to the ideals of the French Revolution."
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birthDate: "1735-12-07"
deathDate: "1803-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump