Augustin-Louis Cauchy
1789 – 1857 · aged 68
French mathematician (1789–1857)
- Born
- 21 Aug 1789 · Paris
- Died
- 23 May 1857 · Sceaux
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- 21 Aug 1789BornBorn in Paris
- 1816AwardGrand prix des sciences mathématiques
- 1819AwardKnight of the Legion of Honour
- 1832AwardFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1832AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1849AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- 23 May 1857DiedDied in Sceaux
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- 1789 – 1799French Revolution
- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
Biography
Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857) was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist. He was one of the first to rigorously state and prove the key theorems of calculus (thereby creating real analysis), pioneered the field of complex analysis, and the study of permutation groups in abstract algebra. Cauchy also contributed to a number of topics in mathematical physics, notably continuum mechanics.
A profound mathematician, Cauchy had a great influence over his contemporaries and successors; Hans Freudenthal stated:
More concepts and theorems have been named for Cauchy than for any other mathematician (in elasticity alone there are sixteen concepts and theorems named for Cauchy).
Cauchy was a prolific worker; he wrote approximately eight hundred research articles and five complete textbooks on a variety of topics in the fields of mathematics and mathematical physics.
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