Charles Hermite
1822
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1901
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: Lycée Henri-IV, Lycée Louis-le-Grand, École polytechnique
occupation: mathematician, university teacher, senior lecturer, professeur des universités
award received: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Foreign Member of the Royal Society
position held: president
Charles Hermite (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ɛʁˈmit]) FRS FRSE MIAS (24 December 1822 – 14 January 1901) was a French mathematician who did research concerning number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. Hermite polynomials, Hermite interpolation, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor. One of his students was Henri Poincaré. He was the first to prove that e, the base of natural logarithms, is a transcendental number. His methods were used later by Ferdinand von Lindemann to prove that π is transcendental. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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