Ivan Niven exploited a technique of Hermite to give an elementary proof that
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Charles Hermite
Charles Hermite was a French mathematician who studied analysis, number theory, and algebra. One of his most remarkable achievements was the proof of the transcendence of the number e.
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science · French mathematician (1822–1901) · mathematician · university teacher · senior lecturer · professeur des universités · also Charles Hermite, Hermite
Born 24 December 1822 · Died 14 January 1901 · Q168401
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1901· 1 entry
Died 1901-01-14.
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1893· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (1893).
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1890· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1890–1890).
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1873· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1873).
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Published a lengthy paper demonstrating in two different ways that that e, the base of the natural logarithm, is transcendental, based on prior work by Joseph Liouville
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1869· 1 entry
Succeeded Jean-Marie Duhamel as professor of mathematics, both at the École Polytechnique, where he remained until 1876, and at the University of Paris, where he remained until his death
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1864· 1 entry
Hermite presented a new class of special functions, Hermite polynomials, in the context of expansions in terms of continuous functions over unbounded intervals
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1858· 1 entry
1865, and 1866, Hermite showed that roots of the quintic polynomial could be obtained using elliptic integrals
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1855· 1 entry
Hermite proved that the eigenvalues of matrices equal to their own complex conjugate transposes, Hermitian matrices, are always real, thereby generalizing the 1829 result of Cauchy for
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1854· 1 entry
Though the modern formal definition was first stated by 1878 by Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
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1848· 1 entry
Hermite returned to the École Polytechnique as répétiteur and examinateur d'admission
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1842· 2 entries
Nouvelles Annales de Mathématiques published Hermite's first original contribution to mathematics, a simple proof of Niels Henrik Abel's proposition concerning the impossibility of an algebraic solution to equations of t
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Studied at École polytechnique (1841–1842).
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1841· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand (1840–1841).
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1840· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Henri-IV (1840).
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1822· 1 entry
Born 1822-12-24.
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