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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 24 December 1822
- Died
- 14 January 1901
- Place of birth
- Dieuze
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Charles
- Family name
- Hermite
- Field of work
- algebra, number theory, mathematics, mathematical analysis, quadratic form, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic function
- Occupation
- mathematician, university teacher, senior lecturer, professeur des universités, university teacher
- Position held
- president of the French Academy of Sciences
- Citizenship
- France
- Awards
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star, Honorary doctor of the University of Liège
- academic degree
- baccalauréat, Bachelor of Science
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1950–1958), The Catholic Encyclopedia, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6
- doctoral advisor
- Eugène Charles Catalan
- doctoral student
- Henri Poincaré, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Marie Georges Humbert, Jules Tannery, Désiré André, Léon Charve, Mihailo Petrović, Louis Bourguet, Charles Biehler, Henri Padé
- educated at
- Lycée Henri-IV, Lycée Louis-le-Grand, École polytechnique
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- member of
- Royal Society, Société Philomathique de Paris, French Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Ligue de la Patrie Française, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Académie de Stanislas (Nancy, France), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Charles Hermite
- notable work
- Hermite polynomial, Hermite–Lindemann Theorem, Hermite distribution, Hermite interpolation, cubic Hermite spline, Hermite–Hadamard inequality, Hermite constant, Hermite normal form, Gauss–Hermite quadrature, Hermitian manifold
- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- student
- Mijalko Ciric
- student of
- Louis Richard
- topic's main category
- Category:Charles Hermite
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