Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde
Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (born February 28, 1735 in Paris , † January 1, 1796 ibid) was a French musician , mathematician and chemist .
Vandermonde's passion was playing the violin . Interest in math problems only came when he was around 35 years old. Vandermonde dealt, among other things, with symmetric functions , the solution of cyclic polynomials and here anticipated parts of Galois theory . He also looked at the knight problem in chess . In 1771 he was accepted into the Académie des Sciences .
The Vandermonde matrix is named after him , a special form of a matrix .
Fonts
- Mémoire sur la résolution des equations (1771)
- Remarques on the problem of the situation (1771)
- Mémoire sur des irrationnelles de différens ordres avec une application au cercle (1772)
- Mémoire sur l'élimination (1772)
- Système d'harmonie applicable a l'état actuel de la musique (1778)
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vandermonde, Alexandre-Théophile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French musician, mathematician and chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1735 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1796 |
| Place of death | Paris |