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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1053 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STURM  , JACQUES

CHARLES FRANCOIS (1803-1855), French mathematician, of German extraction, was born at Geneva on the 29th of September 1803 . Originally tutor to the son of Mme de Stael, he resolved, with his schoolfellow Colladon, to try his fortune in Paris, and obtained employment on the Bulletin universel . In 1829 he discovered the theorem, regarding the determination of the number of real roots of a numerical equation included between given limits, which bears his name (see EQUATION, V.), and in the following
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year he was appointed professor of mathematics at the College Rollin . He was chosen a member of the Academie
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des Sciences in 1836, became " repetiteur " in 1838, and in 184o professor in the 1 cote Polytechnique, and finally succeeded S . D . Poisson in the chair of
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mechanics in the Faculte des Sciences at Paris .

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