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Charles Hermite
Includes a biography comparing him with other contemporaries of his, references and quotations.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hermite.html
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Elie Cartan
A brief biography of Cartan and exposition of his work in applied topology.
http://www22.pair.com/csdc/car/carfre2.htm
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Sophus Lie
A short history of the life and work of Sophus Lie, whose work, Lie groups, has applications in quantum mechanics in relativity.
http://www.emis.de/journals/JLT/vol.9_no.1/1.html
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Hermann Hankel
The mathematician who developed Hankel functions and the Hankel transform.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hankel.html
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Gustav Jacobi
The mathematician whose work with coordinate transformations is still common in mathematical physics
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Jacobi.html
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Jean Fourier
A short biography on the man who invented the Fourier series and transforms.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Fourier.html
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Jean Delambre
The mathematician who analysed the orbit of Uranus and predicted a possible extra planet.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Delambre.html
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Vito Volterra
A short biography on Volterra and his work in differential equations and mathematical physics.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Volterra.html
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George Stokes
A short biography on the mathematician who created Stokes's theorem
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Stokes.html
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Charles-Francois Sturm
A biography of the Mathematican who worked on differential equations and created the form now call Sturm-Liouville equations.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sturm.html
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