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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician (1789–1857)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 21 August 1789
- Died
- 23 May 1857
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Sceaux
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Augustin
- Family name
- Cauchy
- Father
- Louis François Cauchy
- Mother
- Marie-Madeleine Desestre
- Spouse
- Aloise de Bure
- Sibling
- Eugène Cauchy
- Field of work
- mathematical analysis, geometry, mathematics, mechanics, elasticity theory, complex analysis, abstract algebra, continuum mechanics, mathematical physics, Cauchy problem
- Occupation
- mathematician, engineer, physicist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- France
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Awards
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Grand prix des sciences mathématiques, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
- described by source
- The Catholic Encyclopedia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, New International Encyclopedia
- different from
- Cauchy
- doctoral student
- Viktor Bunyakovsky, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Gabriel Oltramare, Francesco Faà di Bruno
- employer
- University of Paris, University of Turin, Corps of bridges, waters and forests, École polytechnique, Collège de France, Charles X of France
- influenced by
- Bernard Bolzano
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- member of
- Royal Society, Société Philomathique de Paris, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
- name in native language
- Augustin Louis Cauchy
- notable work
- Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, cauchy sequence, Cauchy problem, Cauchy principal value, Cauchy's convergence test, Cauchy product, Cauchy–Riemann equations, Cauchy distribution, Cauchy matrix, Cauchy horizon, Cauchy–Hadamard theorem, Cauchy's integral theorem
- place of burial
- Cemetery Sceaux
- student
- Auguste Comte
- student of
- Pierre-Simon Girard
- topic's main category
- Category:Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- writing language
- French
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