Charles Hermite
Charles Hermite (pronounced "air MEET") (
1822 -
1901) was a French mathematician who did research on
number theory, quadratic forms,
invariant theory,
orthogonal polynomials,
elliptic functions, and
algebra. The
Hermite polynomials are named in his honor. He was the first to prove that
e, the base of natural logarithms, is a
transcendental number. His methods were later used by
Lindemann for the proof of his celebrated theorem that
&pi is transcendental.
This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it.