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Mathematics Personae

For entertainment value you can find some background on the mathematicians who developed some of the ideas we are exploring in this class:

• Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde
• 28 February 1735 – 1 January 1796
• Vandermonde: Detailed Biography
• Augustin Louis Cauchy
• 21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857
• Cauchy: Detailed Biography
• Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky
• 16 December 1804 – 12 December 1889
• Bunyakovsky: Detailed Biography
• Charles Hermite
• 24 December 1822 – 14 January 1901
• Hermite: Detailed Biography
• Hermann Amandus Schwarz
• 25 January 1843 – 30 November 1921
• Schwarz: Detailed Biography
• Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
• 26 October 1849 – 3 August 1917
• Frobenius: Detailed Biography