Jacques Charles François Sturm (September 29, 1803 - December 15, 1855), French mathematician, of German extraction, was born in Geneva. September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... Geneva (French: Genève) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland located where Lake Geneva (French: Lac Léman, but the Genevois are fond of calling it Lac de Genève) empties into the Rhône River. ...

Originally tutor to the son of Madame de Staël, he resolved, with his school-fellow Colladon, to try his fortune in Paris, and obtained employment on the Bulletin universel. In 1829 he discovered the theorem, regarding the determination of the number of real roots of a numerical equation included between given limits, which bears his name, and in the following year he was appointed professor of mathematics at the College Rollin. Madame de Staël Anne Louise Germaine de Staël ( April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817) was a French author who determined literary tastes of Europe at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... In mathematics, Sturms theorem is a symbolic procedure to determine the number of unique real roots of a polynomial. ...

He was chosen a member of the Académie des Sciences in 1836, became répétiteur in 1838, and in 1840 professor in the École Polytechnique, and finally succeeded SD Poisson in the chair of mechanics in the Faculté des Sciences at Paris. His works, Cours d'analyse de l'école polytechnique (1857-1863) and Cours de mécanique de l'école polytechnique (1861), were published after his death at Paris. The French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean_Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. ... 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The cadets of Polytechnique rushed to the defense of Paris against the foreign armies in 1814. ... Simeon Poisson. ... In physics, Classical mechanics is one of the two major sub-fields of study in the science of mechanics, which is concerned with the motions of bodies, and the forces that cause them. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

He was the co-eponym of the Sturm-Liouville theory with Joseph Liouville. Sturm's theorem is a basic result for proving the existence of real zeroes of functions. An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity. ... Sturm-Liouville theory - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Joseph Liouville (born March 24, 1809, died September 8, 1882) was a French mathematician. ... In mathematics, Sturms theorem is a symbolic procedure to determine the number of unique real roots of a polynomial. ...

External links

• Biography (http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sturm.html) at the MacTutor archive

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