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STURM

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 1053 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: STE-SUS
STURM , JACQUES
CHARLES
  FRANCOIS (1803-1855),
French
  mathematician, of
German
  extraction, was born at
Geneva on the 29th of September 1803. Originally tutor to the son of Mme de Stael, he resolved, with his schoolfellow 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 (see EQUATION, V.), and in the following year he was appointed
professor
  of
mathematics
  at the College
Rollin
 . He was chosen a member of the Academie des Sciences in 1836, became " repetiteur " in 1838, and in 184o
professor
  in the 1 cote Polytechnique, and finally succeeded S. D.
Poisson
  in the chair of
mechanics
  in the Faculte des Sciences at Paris. His works, Cours d'analyse de l'ecole polytechnique (1857-1863) and Cours de mecanique de l'ecole polytechnique (1861), were published after his death at Paris on the 18th of
December
  1855


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