Charles-François Sturm: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Jacques-Charles-François Sturm
Born September 29, 1803 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died December 18, 1855 (aged 52) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1840)
Subjects Of Study Sturm’s theorem • equation • speed of sound • water

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Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician
Karl Weierstrass
Karl Weierstrass
German mathematician
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
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Edward Waring
English mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
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Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Lebesgue, portrait by an unknown artist, 1929
Henri-Léon Lebesgue
French mathematician
Charles-Émile Picard.
Charles-Émile Picard
French mathematician
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Camille Jordan
French mathematician
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François Viète
French mathematician
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Édouard-Jean-Baptiste Goursat
French mathematician
Siméon-Denis Poisson
Siméon-Denis Poisson
French mathematician
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Michel Chasles
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Norbert Wiener.
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician