Mathematician:Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde

Mathematician

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 in Paris, France
• Died: 1 Jan 1796 in Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

• Vandermonde Determinant
• Vandermonde Matrix
• Chu-Vandermonde Identity (a redisovery of the result shown by Chu Shih-Chieh), also known as Vandermonde's Convolution

Results named for Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde can be found here.

Publications

• 1771: Mémoire sur la résolution des équations
• 1771: Remarques sur des problèmes de situation
• 1772: Mémoire sur les Irrationels de différens ordres avec une application au cercle (Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, avec les Mémoires de Mathématique et de Physique Vol. 1772: pp. 489 – 498)
• 1772: Mémoire sur l'élimination

Sources

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

• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Vandermonde, Alexandre-Théophile (1735-96)