4-38. Charles Hermite

Charles Hermite (1822–1901) was born in Dieuze (Moselle), the sixth child of Ferdinand Hermite and Madeleine Lallemand. He was admitted to the École polytechnique in 1842, but stayed only for a year. Nonetheless, he was named an admissions examiner and répétiteur there in 1848, and professor of analysis in 1867. In 1869 he was named professor of higher algebra at the Paris Faculty of Sciences, and taught there until his retirement in 1897.

Hermite married a sister of Joseph Bertrand; one of his daughters married Émile Picard.¹¹endnote: ¹ On the family ties of Hermite and Bertrand, see Zerner (1991). From 1856, he was a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in the geometry section. His works were edited in four volumes by Picard (1905; 1908; 1912; 1917). Appreciations of Hermite’s contributions to mathematics include Poincaré (1892); Darboux (1912); Freudenthal (1972); Goldstein et al. (2007).

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Notes

¹ On the family ties of Hermite and Bertrand, see Zerner (1991).

Références

G. Darboux (1912) Notice historique sur Charles Hermite. In Gaston Darboux, Éloges académiques et discours, P. Appell (Ed.), pp. 116–172. link1 Cited by: 4-38. Charles Hermite.
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M. Zerner (1991) La règne de Joseph Bertrand (1874–1900). Cahiers d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences 34, pp. 296–322. link1 Cited by: endnote 1.