Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Cauchy around 1840. Lithography by Zéphirin Belliard after a painting by Jean Roller.
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a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who made pioneering contributions to several branches of mathematics, including mathematical analysis and continuum mechanics.
Born
21 August 1789 Paris, France
Died
23 May 1857 (aged 67) Sceaux, France
Nationality
French
Known for
Continuum mechanics Mathematical analysis Gradient descent Implicit function theorem Intermediate value theorem Spectral theorem Limit (mathematics) See full list
Fields
Mathematics, Physics
Alma mater
École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Awards
Grand Prize of L'Académie Royale des Sciences
Institutions
École Centrale du Panthéon École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées École Polytechnique
Spouse(s)
Aloise de Bure
adultbasic
France
Children
Marie Françoise Alicia, Marie Mathilde
Doctoral students
Francesco Faà di Bruno Viktor Bunyakovsky
era
1800+