Augustin-Louis Cauchy

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19th-century mathematician French mathematician human mathematician

Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a pioneering 19th-century French mathematician whose rigorous foundations for calculus and complex analysis profoundly shaped modern mathematics.

Aliases (2)

Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy ×1
Cauchy ×1

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	19th-century mathematician → French mathematician → human → mathematician →
almaMater	École Polytechnique → École des Ponts et Chaussées →
awardReceived	Copley Medal →
birthCountry	France →
birthDate	1789-08-21 →
birthPlace	Paris →
deathCountry	France →
deathDate	1857-05-23 →
deathPlace	Sceaux →
employer	Bureau des Longitudes → Collège de France → Sorbonne NERFINISHED → École Polytechnique →
familyName	Cauchy →
field	algebra → analysis → combinatorics → complex analysis → mathematical physics → mathematics → mechanics → number theory →
fullName	Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy →
givenName	Augustin-Louis →
hasTitle	Baron →
ideology	Legitimism →
influenced	Bernhard Riemann → Karl Weierstrass → modern analysis → rigorous calculus →
knownFor	Cauchy condensation test → Cauchy convergence criterion → Cauchy determinant → Cauchy distribution → Cauchy integral formula → Cauchy integral theorem → Cauchy interlacing theorem → Cauchy matrix → Cauchy principal value → Cauchy problem → Cauchy residue theorem → Cauchy sequence → Cauchy stress tensor → Cauchy–Euler equation → Cauchy–Hadamard theorem → Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem → Cauchy–Riemann equations → Cauchy–Schwarz inequality → foundations of complex analysis → rigorous foundations of analysis → rigorous foundations of calculus →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
memberOf	Académie des Sciences → French Academy of Sciences → Royal Society → Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences →
nationality	French →
notableWork	Cours d’Analyse → Résumé des leçons sur le calcul infinitésimal →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
workPeriod	19th century →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bernhard Riemann → Karl Weierstrass → Évariste Galois →	influencedBy
inverse function theorem → local existence and uniqueness theorem →	historicallyAssociatedWith
Augustin-Louis Cauchy ("Cauchy") →	familyName
Augustin-Louis Cauchy ("Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy") →	fullName