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Charles Sturm
Jacques Charles François Sturm was a French mathematician, who made a significant addition to equation theory with his work, Sturm's theorem.
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science · French mathematician (1803–1855) · mathematician · physicist · university teacher · also Charles Sturm, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Charles-François Sturm, Sturm
Born 29 September 1803 · Died 18 December 1855 · Q123485
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2014· 1 entry
Southeast Missourian: Charles Sturm
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1855· 1 entry
Died 1855-12-18.
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1840· 2 entries
Won Copley Medal (1840).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1840).
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1838· 1 entry
And in 1840 professor in the École Polytechnique
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1837· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1837).
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1834· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix des sciences mathématiques (1834).
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1829· 1 entry
Discovered the theorem that bears his name, and concerns real-root isolation, that is the determination of the number and the localization of the real roots of a polynomial
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1826· 1 entry
With his colleague Jean-Daniel Colladon, Sturm helped make the first experimental determination of the speed of sound in water
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1823· 2 entries
Became tutor to the son of Madame de Staël
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Studied at University of Geneva (1819–1823).
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1818· 1 entry
Started to follow the lectures of the academy of Geneva
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1803· 1 entry
Born 1803-09-29.
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