Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (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 of 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 textbooks on a variety of topics in the fields of mathematics and mathematical physics.

Notable works: Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, cauchy sequence, Cauchy problem, Cauchy principal value, Cauchy's convergence test, Cauchy product, Cauchy–Riemann equations, Cauchy distribution Awards: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Grand prix des sciences mathématiques, Concours général, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower Education: École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Lycée Henri-IV, École polytechnique

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