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Authorised form of nameSturm; Jacob Karl Franz (1803 - 1855)
Other forms of nameCharles-Francois
Jacques Charles Francois
Dates1803 - 1855
Place of birthGeneva, Switzerland
Date of birth29 September 1803
Place of deathParis, France
Date of death18 December 1855
Research fieldMathematics
Physics
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election04/06/1840
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1840
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1856-1857 vol 8 pp 260-264
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/90637478
CodeNA2815
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1840/24Sturm, Jacob Karl Franz: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PT/47/7Paper, 'On a theory of the conjugate relations of two rational integral functions comprising an application to the theory of Sturm's functions and that of the greatest algebraical common measure' by J J [James Joseph] Sylvester[1853]
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