Biography of the most reluctant 'Jacques Charles François Sturm' Biographical study University Bachelor of science.

Title: Biography of the most reluctant 'Jacques Charles François Sturm' Biographical study University Bachelor of science.
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Biography of the most reluctant 'Jacques Charles François Sturm' Biographical study University Bachelor of science.

Charles-François Sturm's father was Jean-Henri Sturm whose family came from Strasbourg to settle in Geneva about 50 years before Charles-François's birth. Jean-Henri Sturm was a teacher of arithmetic who had married Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Gremay. Charles-François's parents gave him a good education and at school he showed great promise, particularly in Greek and Latin poetry for which he had a remarkable talent. Sturm came from a Protestant family and, in order to learn German, he …showed first 75 words of 1301 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1301 total…l'École Polytechnique 2 Vol. (1861) both published posthumously. His time for research was now limited but he still made important contributions undertaking research on infinitesimal geometry, projective geometry and the differential geometry of curves and surfaces. He also did important work on geometrical optics. From 1851 his health began to fail and despite brave attempts to overcome the problem and return to teaching (which he managed to do for a while) he died after a long illness.

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