Lambert - Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777)
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Description: In a memoir in 1768 on transcendental magnitudes he proved that pi is incommensurable.
Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777) Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. was born at Mülhausen on August 28, 1728, and died at Berlin on September 25, 1777. He was the son of a small tailor, and had to rely on his own efforts for his education; from a clerk in some ironworks he got a place in a newspaper office, and subsequently, on the recommendation of the editor, he was appointed tutor in a private family, which secured him the use of a good library and sufficient leisure to use it. In 1759 he settled at Augsburg, and in 1763 removed to Berlin where he was given a small pension, and finally made editor of the Prussian astronomical almanack.
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