ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde

French mathematician and musician mainly active in the fields of combinatorics.

Referred to by some as "the founder of the theory of determinants".

Best known nowadays for the Vandermonde Determinant and the Chu-Vandermonde Identity.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 28 Feb 1735, Paris, France
• Died: 1 Jan 1796 in Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

• Vandermonde Determinant
• Vandermonde's Matrix
• Chu-Vandermonde Identity

Books and Papers

• 1771: Mémoire sur la résolution des équations
• 1771: Remarques sur des problèmes de situation
• 1772: Mémoire sur des irrationnelles de différens ordres avec une application au cercle
• 1772: Mémoire sur l'élimination

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive