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  2. Jacques Charles - Wikipedia

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    Jacques Alexandre César Charles (12 November 1746 – 7 April 1823) was a French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist.Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles (sometimes called Charles the Geometer [1]), also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May 1785.

  3. List of scientific laws named after people - Wikipedia

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    Charles Augustin de Coulomb: Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's law) Thermodynamics: Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac: Clifford's theorem Clifford's circle theorems: Algebraic geometry, Geometry: William Kingdon Clifford: Curie's law: Physics: Pierre Curie: Curie–Weiss law: Physics: Pierre Curie and Pierre ...

  4. List of scientific equations named after people - Wikipedia

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    Jacques Charles François Sturm and Joseph Liouville: Swamee–Jain equation: Fluid dynamics: P. K. Swamee and A. K. Jain: Swift–Hohenberg equation: Pattern formation: J. B. Swift and P. C. Hohenberg: Sylvester equation Sylvester's formula: Control theory Matrix theory: James Sylvester James Sylvester Taft equation: Physical organic chemistry ...

  5. Jacques Charles François Sturm - Wikipedia

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    Jacques Charles François Sturm (29 September 1803 – 15 December 1855) was a French mathematician, who made a significant addition to equation theory with his work, Sturm's theorem. [ 1 ] Early life

  6. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Charles's law, one of the gas laws in physics, states that at constant pressure the volume of a given mass of a gas increases or decreases by the same factor as its temperature (in kelvin) increases or decreases. Named after Jacques Charles. Chekhov's gun states that nonessential elements of a story must be removed.

  7. Vassilios Lakon - Wikipedia

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    Lakon wrote Elements of Geometry (Στοιχεία Γεωμετρίας) in 1882. In his textbook, he outlined his interpretation of axiomatic geometry . He was very active within the scientific community, constantly interacting with his contemporaries in Greece namely Dimitrios Stroumpos and Timoleon Argyropoulos .

  8. Sturm's theorem - Wikipedia

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    The Sturm chain or Sturm sequence of a univariate polynomial P(x) with real coefficients is the sequence of polynomials ,, …, such that =, = ′, + = ⁡ (,), for i ≥ 1, where P' is the derivative of P, and ⁡ (,) is the remainder of the Euclidean division of by .

  9. Poncelet Prize - Wikipedia

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    (1874) Jacques Bresse, "for his work in applied mechanics." (1875) Gaston Darboux, "for the ensemble of his mathematical work." (1876) Xavier Kretz (1877) Edmond Laguerre, "for his mathematical works." (1878) Maurice Lévy (1879) Théodore Moutard (1880) Henry Léauté (1881) Charles Auguste Briot (1882) Rudolf Clausius (1883) Georges Henri Halphen