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Jacques Charles François Sturm

1803 - 1855

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Jacques Charles François Sturm (29 September 1803 – 15 December 1855) was a French mathematician, who made a significant addition to equation theory with his work, Sturm's theorem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Charles François Sturm has received more than 83,378 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Jacques Charles François Sturm is the 278th most popular mathematician (up from 323rd in 2019), the 179th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 210th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jacques Charles François Sturm ranks 278 out of 1,004. Before him are Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Shing-Tung Yau, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Paul Cohen, Lev Pontryagin, and Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam. After him are George Atwood, Edward Waring, Lloyd Shapley, Abraham bar Hiyya, John Edensor Littlewood, and Kunihiko Kodaira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Jacques Charles François Sturm ranks 24. Before him are James Brooke, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, John Ericsson, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Muhammad IV of Morocco. After him are Joseph Paxton, Henry Darcy, Alexander Georg von Bunge, John Sutter, Robert Stephenson, and Henri Herz. Among people deceased in 1855, Jacques Charles François Sturm ranks 20. Before him are Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Antonio Rosmini, Diponegoro, and François Magendie. After him are Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa, William Parry, August Leopold Crelle, Mariano Arista, Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha, and Princess Charlotte of Prussia.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jacques Charles François Sturm ranks 179 out of 1,015. Before him are Michel Simon (1895), Frithjof Schuon (1907), Jo Siffert (1936), Arthur Cohn (1927), Viola Amherd (1962), and Notker the Stammerer (840). After him are Isabelle Eberhardt (1877), Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968), Joanna of Pfirt (1300), DJ BoBo (1968), Jonas Furrer (1805), and Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Jacques Charles François Sturm ranks 10. Before him are Gabriel Cramer (1704), Jost Bürgi (1552), Jakob Steiner (1796), Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), and Jean-Robert Argand (1768). After him are Johann II Bernoulli (1710), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), Johann Baptist Cysat (1585), Jakob Hermann (1678), Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687), and Nicolas Fuss (1755).

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