1. On Lagrange's advice, Augustin-Louis Cauchy was enrolled in the Ecole Centrale du Pantheon, the best secondary school of Paris at that time, in the fall of 1802.
19 Facts About Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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In September 1812, at 23 years old, Augustin-Louis Cauchy returned to Paris after becoming ill from overwork.
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When his health improved in 1813, Augustin-Louis Cauchy chose not to return to Cherbourg.
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy attempted admission to the First Class of the Institut de France but failed on three different occasions between 1813 and 1815.
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The Academie des Sciences was re-established in March 1816; Lazare Carnot and Gaspard Monge were removed from this academy for political reasons, and the king appointed Augustin-Louis Cauchy to take the place of one of them.
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In 1816, this Bonapartist, non-religious school was reorganized, and several liberal professors were fired; Augustin-Louis Cauchy was promoted to full professor.
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In 1824 Louis XVIII died, and was succeeded by his even more conservative brother Charles X During these years Cauchy was highly productive, and published one important mathematical treatise after another.
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In 1831 Augustin-Louis Cauchy went to the Italian city of Turin, and after some time there, he accepted an offer from the King of Sardinia for a chair of theoretical physics, which was created especially for him.
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In 1834, his wife and two daughters moved to Prague, and Augustin-Louis Cauchy was reunited with his family after four years in exile.
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy returned to Paris and his position at the Academy of Sciences late in 1838.
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In November 1839 Augustin-Louis Cauchy was elected to the Bureau, and discovered that the matter of the oath was not so easily dispensed with.
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The confounded membership of the Bureau lasted until the end of 1843, when Augustin-Louis Cauchy was replaced by Poinsot.
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In 1853, Augustin-Louis Cauchy was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society.
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The contour integral is taken along the contour C The rudiments of this theorem can already be found in a paper that the 24-year-old Cauchy presented to the Academie des Sciences on August 11,1814.
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In 1826 Augustin-Louis Cauchy gave a formal definition of a residue of a function.
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In 1831, while in Turin, Augustin-Louis Cauchy submitted two papers to the Academy of Sciences of Turin.
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Only in the 1840s the theory started to get response, with Pierre Alphonse Laurent being the first mathematician besides Augustin-Louis Cauchy to make a substantial contribution.
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Gilain notes that when the portion of the curriculum devoted to Analyse Algebrique was reduced in 1825, Augustin-Louis Cauchy insisted on placing the topic of continuous functions at the beginning of the Differential Calculus.
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Laugwitz and Benis-Sinaceur point out that Augustin-Louis Cauchy continued to use infinitesimals in his own research as late as 1853.