Johann Heinrich Lambert
1728-1777
Swiss-German Mathematician
Overcoming enormous social barriers, Johann Heinrich Lambert entered the ranks of Europe's foremost mathematicians. He did so withou...
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Lambert and Ploucquet
Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777), German physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, devoted a number of essays to the enterprise of making a calculus of logic, which he ...
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Lambert, Johann Heinrich(1728–1777)
Johann Heinrich Lambert, the German mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and philosopher, was born in Mulhouse, Alsace. He taught himself mathematics, philo...
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Johann Heinrich Lambert stood largely outside the academic environment of his time. Although his ideas did not become popular until the next century and some of his other work were lost for many years...
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