Surf these sites: Charles-Francois Sturm -- A biography of the Mathematican who worked on differential equations and created the form now call Sturm-Liouville equations. Georg Stokes -- A short biography on the mathematician who created Stoke''s theorem Gustav Jacobi -- The mathematician whose work with coordinate transformations is still common in mathematical physics Hermann Hankel -- The mathematician who developed Hankel functions and the Hankel transform. JACOBI, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804-1851) -- Elliptic functions, determinant theory, theory of numbers, theory of both ordinary and partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, the three-boby problem, and other dynamical problems. Jean Delambre -- The mathematician who analysed the orbit of Uranus and predicted a possible extra planet. Jean Fourier -- A short biography on the man who invented the Fourier series and transforms. Joseph Liouville -- The mathematician who developed Sturm-Liouville differential equations. Legendre - Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833) -- His major work on elliptic integrals provided basic analytical tools for mathematical physics, in 1782 he determined attractive force by introducing an infinite series of polynomials Pn now called Legendre polynomials. Sophus Lie -- A short history of the life and work of Sophus Lie, whose work, Lie groups, has applications in quantum mechanics in relativity. Vito Volterra -- A short biography on Volterra and his work in differential equations and mathematical physics.
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