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Was Joseph Louis Lagrange's time as director of mathematics at the Berlin Academy of Sciences fruitful?

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The memoirs of the academy were enriched by his distinguished treatises, and during this time he wrote his chief work, Mécanique analytique, a treatment of mechanics based solely on algebra and the calculus and containing not a single diagram or geometric explanation.

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