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| | Charles Hermite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Charles Hermite (pronounced in IPA, /ˌʃaʁl ɛʁˈmit/, or phonetically "air-meet") (December 24, 1822 - January 14, 1901) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. |
 | | Hermite polynomials, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor. |
 | | Upon Weierstrass' discovery in 1861 of continuous curves that are nowhere differentiable - they possess no tangent at any point - Hermite famously remarked: “I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.” |
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