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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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Charles-François Sturm, pencil sketch by Daniel Colladon, 1822; in the Academy of Sciences, Paris.
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Karl Weierstrass, engraving after a photograph by Franz Kullrich.
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German mathematician
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
Edward Waring
English mathematician
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Lebesgue, portrait by an unknown artist, 1929
Henri-Léon Lebesgue
French mathematician
Charles-Émile Picard.
Charles-Émile Picard
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Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician
Camille Jordan
French mathematician
François Viète
French mathematician
Édouard-Jean-Baptiste Goursat
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Siméon-Denis Poisson, detail of a lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech after a portrait by N. Maurin.
Siméon-Denis Poisson
French mathematician
Michel Chasles
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Norbert Wiener.
Norbert Wiener
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