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STURM  , JACQUES

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CHARLES
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FRANCOIS (1803-1855),
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French mathematician, of
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German extraction, was
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born at
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Geneva on the 29th of
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September 1803 . Originally
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tutor to the son of Mme de
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Stael, he resolved, with his schoolfellow Colladon, to try his
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fortune in
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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
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equation included between given limits, which bears his name (see EQUATION, V.), and in the following
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year he was appointed
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professor of
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mathematics at the
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College
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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 .
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Poisson in the
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chair of
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mechanics in the Faculte des Sciences at Paris .

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