Charles Hermite Scientist

Charles Hermite (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ɛʁˈmit]) (December 24, 1822 – January 14, 1901) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.Hermite polynomials, Hermite interpolation, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor. One of his students was Henri Poincaré.He was the first to prove that e, the base of natural logarithms, is a transcendental number. His methods were later used by Ferdinand von Lindemann to prove that π is transcendental.In a letter to Thomas Joannes Stieltjes in 1893, Hermite remarked: "I turn with terror and horror from this lamentable scourge of continuous functions with no derivatives."

Personal facts

Birth date	December 24, 1822
Birth place	Lorraine (region) , Moselle , Dieuze
Nationality	French people
Date of death	January 14, 1901
Place of death	Paris
Education	Lycée Louis-le-Grand Lycée Henri-IV Sorbonne
Known for	E (mathematical constant) Hermitian adjoint Hermitian wavelet Hermitian manifold Hermitian function Conjugate transpose Hermite polynomials Hermitian matrix Self-adjoint operator Sesquilinear form