Fagnano_Giovanni

Giovanni Francesco Fagnano dei Toschi

Born: 31 Jan 1715 in Sinigaglia, Italy
 Died: 14 May 1797 in Sinigaglia, Italy

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Giovanni Fagnano was the son of Giulio Fagnano and was an ordained priest. He continued his father's work on the triangle. He also considered integration computing the integral of

x^nsin(x) and x^ncos(x)

by parts. In addition he calculated the integral of tan(x) as -log cos(x) and of cot(x) as log sin(x).

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Giovanni Fagnano worked on the Lemniscate of Bernoulli

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