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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 77,992 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Charles François Sturm is the 323rd most popular mathematician (down from 261st in 2019), the 210th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 156th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jacques Charles François Sturm ranks 323 out of 823. Before him are Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Frank P. Ramsey, Gaston Julia, Ernesto Cesàro, Theodor Kaluza, and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel. After him are Isaac Beeckman, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, John Milnor, Sergei Sobolev, Kunihiko Kodaira, and Charles-Eugène Delaunay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Jacques Charles François Sturm ranks 31. Before him are Friedrich von Amerling, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Robert Stephenson, Henri Herz, and Muhammad IV of Morocco. After him are Alexander Georg von Bunge, Karl Gützlaff, Edgar Quinet, Alexander von Nordmann, Franz Lachner, and Ludwig Richter. Among people deceased in 1855, Jacques Charles François Sturm ranks 20. Before him are Diponegoro, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Maria Theresa of Austria, Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, Antonio Rosmini, and Princess Charlotte of Prussia. After him are FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Mariano Arista, William Parry, Mihály Vörösmarty, Sergey Uvarov, and Carl Anton von Meyer.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jacques Charles François Sturm ranks 210 out of 876. Before him are Julius Maggi (1846), Alain Tanner (1929), Matthias Zurbriggen (1856), Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Ferdinand Kübler (1919), and André Abegglen (1909). After him are Pascal Couchepin (1942), Jean Ziegler (1934), Carlo Fontana (1638), Jost Amman (1539), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), and Heinrich Glarean (1488).

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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), Jakob Steiner (1796), Jost Bürgi (1552), Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), and Jean-Robert Argand (1768). After him are Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687), Jakob Hermann (1678), Johann Baptist Cysat (1585), and Ludwig Schläfli (1814).

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