Essay On Charles Hermite

Charles Hermite was an amazing French mathematician. He was known for his work with Abelian and elliptic functions, and for the many discoveries he made. He was originally treated unfairly because of his disorder, but he eventually proved that he was incredibly smart and capable of great things. Hermite went to many schools and had many tutors to complete his education. It took him many years to find a job that truly suited his creative and mathematic mind. Also, he made huge accomplishments in the mathematic and scientific fields, and many people were able to use his research to discover more. Charles Hermite also wrote many publications of his work. His research affected mathematics everywhere and is still used in many ways today.

Charles Hermite was born on December 24, 1822. He was born in Dieuze, Moselle with a deformity in his right foot, although this never affected his cheerful personality. His father’s name was Ferdinand Hermite; he worked in the mines, and then moved to the draper’s business, like his in-laws, but he always wanted to take up art instead. Charles’ mother’s name was Madeleine Lallemand. Charles was the sixth of seven children. When he was seven years old, he and his family moved about fifty-five miles south to Nancy for business purposes. His parents never believed that a high education was very important, but they schooled Charles and his siblings well. Also, Hermite studied at three colleges. These were Collège de Nancy, Collège Henri IV, and Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where Galois studied a few years before him. Hermite was taught mathematics by the same teacher as Galois, Louis Richard, and is often compared to Galois because they had the same tendency to read work by Gauss, Euler, and Lagrange instead of s...

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... connection to his studies. There are many other mathematic terms named after Charles Hermite.

Charles Hermite was a man who was very important to mathematics. His work in math and physics is very useful to us today. Hermite sought to learn and pushed himself to his full potential in life. He was a very passionate mathematician and he never let anything get in his way. If he had been discouraged by his birth disability, which could have been very easily done, we wouldn’t have the huge amounts of knowledge he brought into algebra. Charles was a man with a set mind and with goals that he was determined to accomplishment, and did. He enjoyed his profession and happily lived his whole life working hard. He had a beautiful outlook on life, and he was a generally cheerful person. Hermite was a great mathematician who contributed so much to our world, mathematical and not.