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Augustin-Louis Cauchy - Cauchy's Life
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy was one of the greatest mathematicians during the nineteenth century. In fact, there are sixteen concepts and theorems named after him, more than any other mathematician. His life began in Paris, France on August 21, 1789, and ended at Sceaux, France on May 22, 1857. His father, Luois-Francois, and his mother, Marie-Madeleine Desestre, provided him and his siblings a comfortable life [Freudenthal, p. 131].
Cauchy was exposed to famous scientists as a child. The Cauchy family once had Laplace and Berthollet as neighbors, and his father even knew Lagrange. In fact, Lagrange had foreseen Augustin's scientific greatness when he was a child by warning his father to not show him any mathematical text before he was seventeen years old [Freudenthal, p. 131].
After home schooling, Cauchy entered the École Centrale du Panthéon where he finished his cl
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Early Life
Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a French mathematician born on 21st August 1789 in Paris, France. He laid the foundation for modern day analysis and did many significant works in the field of mathematics. His early schooling was from ‘École Centrale du Panthéon’ which was considered to be one of the best schools in Paris at the time. Cauchy was a brilliant student attaining high grades in all subjects including Latin and Humanities. Cauchy enrolled in the École Polytechnique to become an engineer and finished his studies at the institute in 1807. After Polytechnique he went to ‘École des Ponts et Chaussées’ (School for Bridges and Roads) to do civil engineering. Augustin-Louis Cauchy being incredibly smart graduated from here with honors.
Work
After his graduation in 1810, Cauchy got a job in Cherbourg as ‘junior engineer’ where he remained for the next three years. Even while at this extremely time taking job, he managed to write three mathematical manuscripts which he submitted to ‘Institut de France’. Two of these manuscripts were accepted. When Cauchy was 23, his he
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician (1789–1857)
"Cauchy" redirects here. For other uses, see Cauchy (disambiguation).
BaronAugustin-Louis CauchyFRS FRSE (KOH-shee, KOW-shee,[1][2]koh-SHEE;[2][3]French:[oɡystɛ̃lwikoʃi]; 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 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 tex
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