Biography of the most reluctant 'Jacques Charles François Sturm' Biographical study University Bachelor of science.

Charles-François Sturms founder was Jean-Henri Sturm whose family came from Strasbourg to settle in Geneva about 50 historic period before Charles-Françoiss birth. Jean-Henri Sturm was a teacher of arithmetic who had wed Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Gremay. Charles-Françoiss parents gave him a good education and at school he showed great promise, particularly in Greek and Latin verse for which he had a remarkable talent.

Sturm came from a Protestant family and, in order to learn German, he attended the local Lutheran church where sermons were preached in that language. When Sturm was sixteen years old his father died and he changed tack in his academic studies, leaving the humanities and taking up the study of mathematics. He was taught mathematics at Geneva Academy by Simon Lhuilier in 1821 and immediately Lhuilier accepted the mathematical genius in Sturm. However, Lhuilier was over seventy years of age and close to retiring at this time so it was his successor Jean-Jacques Schaub who inspired Sturm. Schaub did more than teach Sturm mathematics for he supported him fiscally at the Academy. Sturms family had been left over(p) in goodly financial difficulties on the death of his father so the financial assistance allowed Sturm to continue with his education.

At the Academy Sturms best friend was Daniel Colladon and the acquaintance would have a marked influence on Sturms early(a) research career. After leaving the Academy, Sturm was appointed as a tutor to the youngest son of Mme de Staël at the Châteaux de Coppet close to Geneva. He took up his appointment in May 1823 and found that it left him plenty of free time to devote to his own studies. He used his time well and began to write articles on geometry which were published in Gergonnes Annales de mathématique pures et appliquées. Before the end of 1823 the...

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