Charles Hermite
French Mathematician
Died when: 78 years 21 days (936 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
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.
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