alexandre-thophile vandermonde

Alexandre-Thophile Vandermonde (28 February 1735 -1 January 1796) was a French musician and chemist who worked with Bezout and Lavoisier; his name is now principally associated with determinant theory in mathematics. He was born in Paris, and died there. He was a violinist, and became engaged with mathematics only around 1770. In Mmoire sur la rsolution des quations (1771) he reported on symmetric functions and solution of cyclotomic polynomials; this paper anticipated later Galois theory. In Remarques sur des problmes de situation (1771) he studied knight's tours. Mmoire sur des irrationnelles de diffrens ordres avec une application au cercle (1772) was on combinatorics, and Mmoire sur l'limination (1772) on the foundations of determinant theory. These papers were presented to the Acadmie des Sciences, and constitute all his published mathematical work. The Vandermonde determinant does not make an explicit appearance. A special class of matrices, the Vandermonde matrices are named after him, as is an elementary fact of combinatorics, Vandermonde's identity. Vandermonde, Alexandre-Thophile Vandermonde, Alexandre-Thophile Vandermonde, Alexandre-Thophile

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